Abstract: As the most populated nation and the largest construction market, China has been imported, created or invented many new technologies and materials in building industry. However, through the whole lifecycle of building, China is a new comer in the utilization and management of information of the building. During the phases of project planning, design and construction, how to collect and use information becomes more and more important. In order to catch with the world trend, andmany of us are doing best to promote the utilization of building Information. This paper introduced North America BIM investigation firstly, then some important issues about BIM development were discussed.