According to the requirements of the higher education reform and some defects of the existing teaching material for building construction, the paper puts forward the reform ideas of the new teaching material of building construction course, for example, we guide and link the contents of each chapter by engineering practice, give the case and some questions before the conventional contents, learn with questions to increase the purpose of learning; add the corresponding provisions of standards in textbook to integrate the knowledge and the standard closely, improve the students'awareness of standards; increase the pictures of real photos to integrate theory with practice and enable the students to make a clearer understanding of knowledge; add the construction organization design of an actual project to make the students have a profound understanding of the scheduled plan and the site organization and management. In order to achieve the purpose of teach students according to their aptitude and learn in order to practice.