Xueyuan Deng, Associate Professor form Shanghai Jiaotong University, was invited to give a talk about "CAD, BIM and Collaborative Research" on November 4th, 2014. First, he compared and analyzed the relationship between CAD, BIM and collaboration and pointed out three key issues that we needed to deeply understand and couldn’t neglect the objectives, cores and foundations based on BIM. Then, he presented the research works from Shanghai Jiaotong University about the collaborative building design of CAD and platform based on BIM. Finally, he summarized the current problems about researches and applications based on BIM, and prospected the developments and applications of BIM. Nearly 20 teachers and graduate students from the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Construction Management participated this lecture.