As a typical industrial building structure in cement plant, the pre-heater tower has the characteristics of complex pipeline distribution and dense equipment layout. In this paper, the application of BIM technology in the construction of the pre-heater tower was discussed and evaluated from three aspects of design, construction and information management platform. In the design phase, BIM technology mainly plays the role of domains collaboration, collision detection and rapid calculation of engineering quantity. In the construction phase, the construction site layout and construction sequence were optimized to avoid spatial conflicts. Based on BIM technology, an information management platform could be developed through an external database and a lightweight collaboration platform to achieve information integration and sharing.