Abstract: With the rapid development of computer and Internet technology, building information model (BIM) has emerged. As a new concept of building technology, BIM has been the driving force of great changes in the construction industry. At the same time, big data and cloud computing technologies have become hot topics. It will be the development trend in future construction industry to combine big data and cloud computing with BIM technology. This paper presents a research about how to store a BIM model in open source HBase database based on big data platform: designing a IFC-based HBase database through the research and parsing of the internal structure of the open standard IFC of BIM model, and then developing IFC-based general library of HBase JAVA API. Finally, the storage method is explained through using the storage example of HBase JAVA API.