Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
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Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
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#2California Assemblymember Alex Lee pushes for single-stairway apartment buildings [1]
https://milpitasbeat.com/assemblymember-alex-lee-pushes-for-...
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#3Single-stair egress costs lives. It shouldn't be allowed. They were right to ban them, no matter how 'ugly' or costly it makes the buildings.
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#4Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043956
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#5Single-stair egress costs lives. It shouldn't be allowed. They were right to ban them, no matter how 'ugly' or costly it makes the buildings.
On its own? Sure. But they are rarely found in a vacuum.
Per the article:
> American approaches aim to make combustible light wood-frame buildings easier to escape by providing multiple paths of egress; European codes, by contrast, require fire-resistant materials and compartmentation to prevent fires from spreading in the first place. Statistically, the evidence is clear: fire-death rates are consistently lower in Europe than in the U.S. and Canada.
It's almost as if disproving this statement is the whole point of the article or something.
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#6Single-stair egress costs lives. It shouldn't be allowed. They were right to ban them, no matter how 'ugly' or costly it makes the buildings.
Spreading out housing more also costs lives, just indirectly. (Increases costs, pollution, land usage, travel distance/time/risk, etc.)
Very few things have a single, simplistic effect in the complex world system.
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#7Single-stair egress costs lives. It shouldn't be allowed. They were right to ban them, no matter how 'ugly' or costly it makes the buildings.
For timber frame buildings, maybe. But in modern concrete fire resistant compartmentalized building it does not make sense at all.
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#8In Tokyo there can be one stairwell, and then the balconies have foldable ladders in their floors. How about that?
Re: Exit Strategy: The Case for Single-Stair Egress
#9Single-stair egress costs lives. It shouldn't be allowed. They were right to ban them, no matter how 'ugly' or costly it makes the buildings.
For timber frame buildings, maybe. But in modern concrete fire resistant compartmentalized building it does not make sense at all.
Most of the new 4-6 story apartment buildings I see going up in USA are all timber frames, at least in the residential floors.