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Is this some old building? One egress on above ground floors is many decades since illegal to develop in EU harmonized bulding codes. The only exception I think

• diggan 3y ago
  > And TBH you can't really extrapolate your residence in one place to conditions in all of Europe, it is quite different. I'm guessing parent also lives in Lisbon or Oporto, which doesn't exactly extrapolate cleanly to rest of Portugal even.
• wolverine876 3y ago
  > One egress on above ground floors is many decades since illegal to develop in EU harmonized bulding codes. The only exception I think if there are sprinkler points in the rooms. I might be misunderstanding, but isn't the OP all about how Europe allows single-stairway and the US does not?
• bouncing 3y ago
  > Is this some old building? Not that old. 2010, maybe? It's a building with 4 stories. We're on the second (Portuguese would call it the first floor; like hackers, they count the ground floor as zero). If you walk out our door, you see an elevator and a stairwell with an insulated steel door to the stairs. That's it; that's the only point of egress. Though in a pinch, I could jump from the balcony and probably just break an ankle or something.
• bogantech 3y ago
  > One egress on above ground floors is many decades since illegal to develop in EU harmonized bulding codes. I was living in an Apartment in Sweden built in 2018 with only a central staircase and no sprinklers and never actually noticed anything else in the few years I lived there