For a whole life cycle of a building, the facility management (FM) period occupies over 90% of the time and over 80% of the overall construction costs. Thus, it is of great significance to pursue more efficient FM methods. The application of BIM technology in FM is able to improve its efficiency significantly, so many researches and applications have been launched in this field. This paper reviews the major works done investigating FM of buildings, and discusses development of FM mode for constructions. From both the perspectives of technology and application, the BIM-based FM methods of building engineering are analyzed. The paper also analyzes the new technical challenges and prospects the trend of future research.