The strategy of emerging engineering education has been put forward, aiming at promoting the cross-integration between disciplines, innovating educational concepts and models, cultivating diversified and innovative engineering talents for the country, and meeting the requirements of the industry for engineering talents. The civil engineering specialty needs to seek innovation and upgrade under the background of emerging engineering education. The construction of intelligent construction specialty impacts the traditional civil engineering specialty, but it also brings opportunities for the information construction of civil engineering specialty. Based on the requirements of national strategy and the existing teaching problems of civil engineering specialty, such as the lag of knowledge and the separation of undergraduate and postgraduate education, taking the requirements of talent ability training under the background of emerging engineering education as the starting point, relying on the advantages of civil engineering discipline construction of Beijing University of Technology, the information technology is integrated into the curriculum system, teaching material system and practical innovation training system of civil engineering, and the practical innovation of civil engineering teaching is carried out. According to the requirements of the transformation and upgrading of civil engineering specialty in the Department of Urban Construction of Beijing University of Technology, the teaching experience is summarized. To stimulate students’ interest in learning and broaden their horizons, a civil engineering teaching curriculum system integrating information technology is established. Integrating VR technology and independently compiling a series of multi-dimensional BIM technology textbooks, students’ ability to understand knowledge is enhanced. By making full use of the high-quality teaching resources of enterprises, a school-enterprise multi-party collaborative education platform under the background of emerging engineering education is built. The integration of education and research is emphasized, and the interactive mode of student competition–scientific and technological innovation–teachers’ scientific research is innovated. In the specific teaching practice, good results have been achieved, which provides a strong support for the cultivation of innovative engineering talents and lays a foundation for the transformation of traditional civil engineering disciplines.