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Humans spend most their life in or under the coverage of buildings. Thus it is mandatory that the buildings safety, not only for the protection from earthquakes, hurricanes, snowstorms, floods, but also the fires. Although we have made standard for installation and maintenance of Fire Safety Equipments in building codes and fire codes, still there are fire disasters happening all the time. According to the relative data of fire disasters investigation, most reasons for causing the fire disasters are connected with the quality of Fire Safety Equipments maintenance, i.e. whether the equipments performed their function of earlier alarming,escape & refuge, initial period extinguishing and for fire rescue normally or not on occurrence of fire .Therefore, how to improve and promote the quality,reducing the loss of lives and properties due to fire disaster,is worth to study as a crucial topic. Further, a large shopping mall has most occupancies and highly potential hazards compared with other buildings, so this study will choose the shopping mall building as a representative case to study. This study carries on reviewing the domestic and foreign related literature, then visiting a super shopping mall to survey its maintenance management performing, and also interview some fire protection contractors and the fire departments, to understand the working status of fire safety equipment maintenance management system at present time.Further, combining the conception of three-level quality management of public construction projects and comparing with the U.S.A and Japanese system, finally using questionnaire and providing the statistical analysis to support the study results.In the end of this preliminary study, some constructive conclusions and suggestions will be proposed,we also discover that the administrator of building doing ordinary check and maintenance , the qualified professional contractor or engineer performing periodical service,the fire department conducting inspection (reinspection) of the Fire Safety Equipments,and itself hardware quality guarantee system are all still having space to be improved at present situation.
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