The renovation and reconstruction of old and dangerous buildings in urban has been actively promoted by the government. However, there is so far no method for the domestic architects, civil engineers, and structure engineers to quantitatively evaluate the durability or seismic performance of the severely deteriorated buildings, and such that current seismic evaluation does not involve the durability assessment as influencing factors. For these reasons, this study proposes durability assessment for reinforced concrete buildings in Taiwan in order to help the architects, civil engineers, and structure engineers to quantitatively assess the durability performances and remedy strategies of those buildings. This study proposes a model to evaluate the mechanical properties of corroded structural members, in which the seismic resistance of RC buildings is evaluated by the reduced hinge capacities by those corroded structural members and nonlinear pushover analyses. In addition, this study also provides the strength reduction coefficients of the column members under different degrees of degradation for the preliminary evaluations of the seismic resistance; in other words, considering the results of the preliminary evaluations of durability, the safety performance of the structure can be quickly determined.