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    The document discusses various components and requirements for stair design, including: 1. It defines common stair components like steps, treads, risers, handrails, balustrades, and stringers. 2. It outlines code requirements for stairs, such as minimum width, rise, tread depth, and landing size. Stairs must also have handrails and meet headroom clearances. 3. Nosing design is specified, requiring a minimum radius and limits on beveling and open riser sizes.

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    The document discusses various components and requirements for stair design, including: 1. It defines common stair components like steps, treads, risers, handrails, balustrades, and stringers. 2. It outlines code requirements for stairs, such as minimum width, rise, tread depth, and landing size. Stairs must also have handrails and meet headroom clearances. 3. Nosing design is specified, requiring a minimum radius and limits on beveling and open riser sizes.

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    The document discusses various components and requirements for stair design, including: 1. It defines common stair components like steps, treads, risers, handrails, balustrades, and stringers. 2. It outlines code requirements for stairs, such as minimum width, rise, tread depth, and landing size. Stairs must also have handrails and meet headroom clearances. 3. Nosing design is specified, requiring a minimum radius and limits on beveling and open riser sizes.

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    Stair Detailing

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    Diane de Ocampo
    The document discusses various components and requirements for stair design, including: 1. It defines common stair components like steps, treads, risers, handrails, balustrades, and stringers. 2. It outlines code requirements for stairs, such as minimum width, rise, tread depth, and landing size. Stairs must also have handrails and meet headroom clearances. 3. Nosing design is specified, requiring a minimum radius and limits on beveling and open riser sizes.

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    16/02/2020

    Stair Components

    05: Stair Detailing


    Building Systems Design

    1 2

    Stair Components Stair Components

    • Step – combination of tread and riser which • Nosing – projecting part of the tread beyond
    permits ascent and descent from one floor to the face of the riser
    another • Baluster – individual vertical member made of
    • Tread – upper horizontal portion of the step over timber, metal or masonry and fixed between
    which foot is placed during ascent and descent string and hand rail to provide support to the
    hand rail
    • Riser – vertical member of the step used to
    support and connect the successive treads • Hand rail – inclined rail provided at convenient
    height over balustrades
    • Rise – vertical height between two consecutive
    treads • Balustrade – framework made from series of
    balusters and hand rail, also known as
    • Flight – continuous series of steps without any barrister
    break between landings or flooring • Pitch/Slope – vertical angle made by nosing
    • Landing – horizontal platform between two line of the stair
    successive flight of stair

    3 4

    Stair Components

    • Run – total length of stair in horizontal plane


    including lengths of landings
    • Soffit – the undersurface of the stair, either
    finished with plaster or covered with a ceiling
    • Newel-post – vertical post provided at the
    head, foot or at a point where the balustrade Code Requirements
    changes its direction
    • Strings/Stringers – sloping members of a stair,
    used to support the end of the steps
    • Spandrel – triangular framing under the
    outside string of an open string air

    5 6

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    Code Requirements Code Requirements


    • Minimum general requirements for any occupancy (NBCP 708.8):
    • Clear width – minimum of 750 mm for occupants less than 10 • Rise and Run (NBCP 1207.5.b)
    • For occupants more than 50, shall not be less than 1.10 m (NBCP 1207.5.a) • Riser shall not exceed 250 mm and run/tread shall not be less than 250 mm
    • For occupants of 50 or less, may be 900 mm wide (NBCP 1207.5.a) • Variations in height of risers and width of treads in one flight is permitted to be kept at 5
    • Rise – 200 mm mm only
    • Tread/run – 250 mm • Landings (NBCP 1207.5.e)
    • Every landing shall have a dimensioned measured in the direction of travel equal to the
    • Landing size (1107.i.xvii): Landings shall not be less than 750 mm long. width of the stairway
    No flight of stairs of temporary stairways shall have a vertical rise • When the stairs has a straight run, it shall not exceed 1.20 meters
    in excess of 3.60 meters. • Handrails (NBCP 1207.5.h)
    • Door opening (NBCP 1107.i.xxi): No door shall open directly onto a • Handrails are required on each side, and for every stairway more than 3.00 meters in
    width shall be provided with not less than one intermediate handrail for each 3.00
    flight of stairs, but a landing equal at least the width of the door meters in width
    shall be provided between the door and the stairs • Handrails shall be placed not less than 800 mm nor more than 900 mm above the nosing
    of treads, and ends of handrails shall terminate in newel-posts.

    7 8

    Code Requirements

    • Nosing (IRC 2009 R311.7.4.3)


    • Radius of curvature: minimum of 14.3 mm
    (9/16 inch)
    • Beveling of nosing shall not exceed 12.7 mm
    (1/2 inch)
    • Risers sloped from the underside of the leading
    edge of the tread above at an angle not more
    than 30 degrees
    • Open risers are permitted, provided that the
     Headroom (NBCP 1207.5.l) – Every
    opening between treads does not permit the
    passage of a 4-inch (102 mm) diameter sphere stairway shall have a headroom clearance
    • Nosing is not required if the tread is a
    of not less than 2.00 meters, measured
    minimum of 279 mm (11 inches) vertically from a plane parallel and
    tangent to the stairway tread nosing to
    the soffit above all points

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