The invention discloses a lifting appliance for steel structure construction and a lifting method, and relates to the technical field of steel structure lifting. Comprising two mounting plates which are symmetrically arranged and fixedly connected through bolts, a rotating wheel set rotationally connected between the two mounting plates through a rotating wheel shaft and a connecting block rotationally connected between the two mounting plates through a connecting shaft and located above the rotating wheel set, an upper lifting lug
assembly is mounted on the connecting block, and the upper lifting lug
assembly comprises a main lifting lug and a lower lifting lug; a reinforcing lifting lug; the reinforced lifting lugs are additionally arranged on the two sides of the main lifting lug, so that a reinforced lifting lug structure is formed, on one hand, the load performance of the lifting lugs can be enhanced, the deformation and
cracking probability of the lifting lug structure is reduced, and on the other hand, after a single lifting lug is damaged, the other two lifting lugs can also play a load role together; the overall reliability and safety of the lifting lug structure are improved; in addition, the improved lifting lug structure is changed,
stress concentration of the main lifting lug can be weakened, and therefore the lifting lug structure has higher load performance.