Retrofitting of the existing structures based on worldwide technologies could be used as a tool to reduce the structural and non-structural damages that caused by earthquake dynamic load. Implementation of the devices such as viscoelastic dampers improves the energy absorption of the structural system. The damage to many low-rise steel structures buildings during the recent earthquakes led to the approach of using this type of energy dissipater equipment for such low-rise buildings to improve the seismic behavior of the building. Moreover, majority of the existing buildings designed based on the older versions of the new building codes and it makes the scenario more worst due to not having a safe structure to serve under life safety level of hazard. In this paper, a novel method for retrofitting of the structures has been proposed which normally, design engineers do not pay attention to this as an important factor in retrofitting of the buildings. The results shown that the reduction of strain energy can be considered as a main goal in retrofitting. Therefore, the seismic performance of the building has been studied in three levels of frequent earthquake, design base earthquake and maximum considered earthquake for three earthquake ground motions. Furthermore, the relative drift, residual drift and maximum absolute acceleration have been investigated based on different hazard levels.