With increasing collapses of bridge structures and popularized utilization of long-span bridges,worldwide bridge performance assessment is of importance in emerging and future bridge management industry.A reliable and visualised bridge performance assessment method can promote serviceability and safety of bridges because bridge management supervisors usually take it as guideline to make decisions.Although new technologies,building information modelling (BIM),laser scanning by point clouds and structural health monitoring,have gained rapid development in recent years,present bridge performance assessment are still mainly based on practical experience and on-site inspection.On the other hand,the collected data obtained from SHM system needs a smart data interpretation approach due to the usage of data is still limited in most of the current bridge performance assessment methods.In this regard,this paper presents a framework of BIM-based bridge performance assessment method.Firstly,the existing BIM implementation in Australia is introduced in Sectior.2.Secondly,automated as-built bridge modelling by laser scanning technology is introduced in Section.3.Finally,a framework of BIM-based bridge damage detection and localization method is introduced in Section.4.We demonstrate the advantages and potential future of BIM-based bridge performance assessment on bridge structures.