This article reviews the British government's BIM strategy since 1970s, namely construction operations building information exchange (COBie). Although the British government did not directly use this generic term BIM, the BIM technology is more and more widely used, such as London Heathrow's fifth terminal project. The British Government has taken a series of initiatives to promote BIM technology in the UK construction industry, such as the central government (Whitehall) pointed out the importance of BIM applications in government procurement, and all of the buildings and infrastructure, regardless of new or refurbished, should take advantage of BIM technology in the management; the National Institute of Building Sciences has also developed a BIM national libraries; a series of BIM-related education and training activities have been carried out. Therefore, the author concluded that the whole life cycle of BIM application will sooner or later be adopted by building owners, this should be no doubt.