The core of performance-based building fire protection design consists of the establishment of fire scenario,the enactment of fire and the simulation of fire and smoke-flow development.These are most important for performance-based building fire protection design.An unreasonable enactment or pre-digestion could result in a biggish error between the simulation outcome and the actual condition.In this paper,several emphases and some issues worth much attention are introduced and analyzed.In addition,a few important issues in simulating the fire and smoke-flow development related to Field Model are analyzed in detail.