The arrival of BIM era proposes new requirements for the cultivation of civil engineering talents. This paper analyzes the importance of the industry-education integration in the talent cultivation in application-oriented universities, expounds the demand and current training situation of civil engineering talents in BIM era, puts forward the idea of talent cultivation based on the background of "deepening industry-education integration", "school-enterprise cooperation and cooperative education", and mainly discusses the measures of talent cultivation: improve the curriculum system with BIM capability as the core, develop BIM course resources, set up double-qualified teachers teams, encourage students to participate in student competitions and mass entrepreneurship and innovation projects, construct school-enterprise teaching practice bases and construct an industry-university-research cooperation project platform, etc., so as to provide reference for the cultivation of professional new technology talents.