The new generation of information technology promotes the sustainable development of highway engineering construction. The innovation of management theory, the reform of management mechanism and the application of new technology make the engineering safety production accidents being effectively controlled. However, due to the development of the project to a more complex environment and a larger volume, it is still crucial of the safety risk control in the construction process. Combined with the national highway engineering construction safety management status during the 13th Five-Year Plan, analysis of highway engineering construction safety management informationization, intelligent security control the necessity of cloud platform construction, through the construction of highway engineering safety risk management and control database, deep integration of Big Data Theory, Internet of Things theory and Artificial Intelligence theory, build a cloud platform for intelligent safety control of highway engineering construction based on big data, in order to improve the information level of controlling highway engineering safety, with the help of advanced information technology to manage and control highway construction safety, reduce safety risk and accident rate, support the development of a strong transportation country and digital transportation.