To develop students' innovation awareness and innovation capacity, the research based teaching is practiced in the building environmental testing technology course based on the course's characteristics and needs for talent training of the built environment and equipment specialty. The teaching system and teaching content were optimized and the research based teaching program was designed based on the mind mapping method and problems method. The experimental teaching was strengthened, which was divided into three levels, basic teaching experiment, open experiment and innovate subject experiment. The research assisted teaching site was build. From the current implementation, the research teaching excited students' learning enthusiasm and broadened students' knowledge. Students' creative ability and practical ability were improved significantly.