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One of the paramount criterion in designing a building is safety, including fire safety. Bank Jateng Pecangaan Jepara is a new building that was designed with limited consideration of fire safety, therefore requires some fire safety improvement. This paper evaluates and proposes fire safety retrofitting to the design of the building. At the first step, fire risk assessment analysis was carried out by using National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) standard. Some parameters would be used to measure the safety level such as the use of active protection systems which include fire alarm (NFPA 72), sprinkler (NFPA 13), portable fire extinguisher (NFPA 10), and hydrant (NFPA 10). Fire risk level is influenced by the initial point of the fire and its propagation. Therefore, at the second stage, a computer based simulation was performed to obtain an appropriate approach in reviewing the existing protection system. A 3D BIM model was built based on shop drawing and specification of the Building by means of Revit software. ProSym software is used to convert DWG BIM file into Fire Dynamics Simulator-s file. The parameters used include building geometry data, material specifications, ventilation and openings, initial of fire and time of evacuation. Ta the final stage, some scenarios of active fire protection were proposed and evaluated to measure its efficacy. It is expected from this ongoing research that fire safety will be increased and some insights on how prevent fire hazard will be gained.