A case study was carried out on fire safety design of a high-rise hotel building. Safety checking was made on evacuation safety, firefighters' accessibility and structural fire resistance. The whole building was split into fire and smoke compartments. Their integrity was checked against design fires, which consist of fully developed, localized and choked fires. Then each performance criteria was checked against established fire and smoke spread assumptions. New proposals of design strategy are ; introduction of choked fires for concealed spaces ; consideration of smoke compartmentation and staff response during horizontal zoned evacuation ; and design for thermal environment in fire fighting bases.
