Abstract: There is provided a building emergency simulator which can graphically and operationally reproduce various building fire alarm/voice communication/smoke control and other systems and provide means for training personnel to successfully operate systems and manage emergency situations. The emergency simulator includes a computer, screen and projection unit for viewing images received from the computer, software for creating an image of various building emergency systems and programmable for creating a simulation of a response of the building emergency systems to a desired emergency situation, microphone and handset and a trackball pointing device for interacting with the software program.