The length of a staircase is usually referred to as the
distance traveled while you're walking up or down. The black arrows in
the diagram below represent the length of this particular stairway. We
can arrive at the length of the staircase, by measuring the distance
between the top and bottom of the stair steps.
Why Is The Length Of A Staircase Important?
You don't see it very often in the United States, but in Asia and
Europe, you're going to run across some stairways that are extremely
long and difficult to climb. That's because they didn't have any
building codes are building inspectors who were generally concerned with
your safety.
Most building codes today require long stairways to have a landing or
resting place, every 12 feet in a vertical direction. To learn more
about this, click on the link below.
Maximum Total Stairway Rise
Long stairways can create safety hazards for people who aren't in the
best physical shape. Simply by climbing up these long stairways, people
can become dizzy and lose their balance.
Another reason why the building and safety code requirements, request
that you have a landings positioned through out an extraordinarily long
stairway, is to prevent people from rolling all the way down the stairs.
If someone becomes lightheaded and faints, there's a good chance that
they're only going to roll a certain distance, before landing on a level
surface (stair landing). If these landings weren't there, these people
could roll a considerable distance, before they finally stopped.
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