Facing the challenges of complex environment,condition changes,resource flow,structural transformation and behavior adjustment of large hydropower projects in the lower reaches of the Jinsha River, an intelligent construction technology system has been established to focus on the whole life cycle safety of large-scale hydropower projects from the engineering planning, construction, and operation. This intelligent system adopts the principle of intelligent closed-loop control of "comprehensive perception, real analysis and real-time control", takes digital and intelligent technologies of resource elements digital management, digital control of business procedures, intelligent control of process flow, accurate analysis of physical costs, structural safety, coupled simulation analysis, and linkage control as its core, the hydropower engineering data model like dam panoramic information model DIM as its foundation, and the intelligent construction management platform iDam as its main body. Hence,this paper analyzes the key technologies,including engineering data structure decomposition and coding system, engineering data aware-transmission-sharing technology, the systemic architecture and business architecture of iDam platform, and the performance of intelligent construction engineering. Relying on the unified engineering data structure and coding system, the platform iDam is capable to integrate all basis data, environment data, process data, and monitoring data throughout the whole engineering process of the construction. As a result,the analysis function, based on engineering technology and management data, can be applied to different parties including owners, construction, supervision, design, R&D and operation side. This early practice of intelligent construction shows that the technical system established by this paper is scientific and feasible, which makes it a good reference for the study and application of intelligent construction technology and management system in terms of infrastructure. © 2019, China Water Power Press. All right reserved.