*  Understand matters relating to stairway design in general

*  Become familiar with several of the codes covering exterior stairway design

*  Understand how stairways interfacing with sloping sidewalks engender safety problems

*  Understand how “riser” and “tread” dimensions should be measured and the mathematics to perform in the design of safer stairways which interface with sloping sidewalks

*  Insight into how simple Descriptive Geometry can be employed in the redesign of unsafe sidewalk-stairway interfaces.