Abstract
This study set out to recognize the characteristics of Building Act whose effectiveness could be guaranteed only with revisions according to technological changes and investigate the problems and improvement measures of the evacuation provisions in Korean law that had maintained their framework since the enactment. The introduction of performance in the evacuation facility provisions for building is a global trend today, which raises a need for South Korea to set a stable of criteria for performance-based design in the Building Act. However, it is more urgent that the specification provisions should be improved as important ones to guarantee the safety of general building, considering that it takes a lot of time to introduce performance-based design because of its long preliminary preparations and that performance-based design is a selective condition as an alternative to specification design. The findings led to the following conclusions: first, building uses should be categorized according to evacuation. Second, the size of occupancy should be considered when setting criteria across the provisions. That is, the concept of provision should be changed from simple specification provision to performance provision. Finally, the study proposed seven supplementary and new provisions on the specification criteria in the Building Act.