The demands of the development of modern building industry for talent cultivation of building environment and energy application engineering specialty after the implementation of civil engineering category enrollment are analyzed. The capacities of high-quality talents of building environment and energy application engineering with competitiveness and great potential for future development are investigated. The efficient ways for talent cultivation of building environment and energy application engineering specialty in civil engineering category are shown. It is pointed out that the professional education of building environment and energy application engineering should broaden the field of vision, rely on hot events at home and abroad to expand professional publicity and enhance students’ professional identity. The importance of teaching idea change from knowledge-transference to ability training and the necessary of a personnel training system including innovative technology such as big data are explained. The suggestions for solving knowledge link-up between courses by using internet instructional software are proposed. The effect of establishment of training system for innovation and entrepreneurship is discussed. The hierarchical training programs for cultivating students’ ability to solve complex engineering problems in guiding graduation project are presented.