Under the background of new economy and industry, the major of building environment and energy application engineering is facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Taking this major of Hunan University of Science and Technology as an example, the paper summarizes its main measures in the aspects of talent cultivation mode, improvement of experimental teaching conditions, practical teaching reform, discipline competition and scientific and technological innovation, and explores the innovative talent cultivation methods of building environment and energy application engineering under the background of emerging engineering education, so as to adapt to the mode transformation of higher engineering education.