既有建築物的防火安全隨著時間的增加而降低性能。在空間限制和高昂的改善成本等因素下，提昇建築物結構本體的防火安全性能是很困難的，尤其針對24小時營運的既有旅館建築物更顯的困難。本文提出了一種簡單的防火安全評估系統，在既有旅館建築物下，防火安全評估系統中最重要的一部分，是以防火安全管理措施建立評估因子，來做為提昇既有建築物防火安全的手段，因此本研究建立之火災預防以及避難和減災策略中提出許多防火管理評估因子，並佔54.95％的比重。在這項研究中，以十六處複合使用用途的既有旅館建築物進行實證。這些案例中，有五處被評價為不安全。經由審視各項防火安全管理因子的得分後，提出必要的改進計劃。此套評估系統將協助旅館建築物所有權人或管理權人以最少的硬體設施的改善，運用防火安全管理措施來提昇安全性能。

The fire safety of existing buildings decreases over time. Based on factors such as space limitation and high construction costs, upgrading hardware construction is difficult, especially in existing hotel buildings due to their 24-hour operation. This paper proposes a simple fire safety evaluation system for existing multi-purpose hotel buildings. Fire safety management is the most important section in the evaluation system, which includes fire prevention, and evacuation and mitigation strategies, accounting for a 54.95% weighting. In this study, an empirical evaluation was conducted on 16 multi-purpose hotel buildings. of these test cases, five were determined to be unsafe. After reviewing the scores for each fire safety management plan factor, necessary improvement plans were proposed. This system will assist owners in undertaking improved fire safety management measures with less hardware renewal.

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