The invention discloses a method for building a highway road bed with waste steel residues. The method comprises the steps: firstly, waste steel residues are adopted to build the road bed; secondly, the building speed of the road bed built with waste steel residues is required to be controlled to guarantee the road bed stability; thirdly, the road embankment built with waste steel residues is compacted by a vibratory road leveling machine in layers, during the compacting, the waste steel residues shall be in the optimum moisture content scope, through the trial road section method, the appropriate compacting machines and tools are determined, and the maximum dry density and the optimum moisture content are adopted as the compaction degree calculating standard in the road bed built with waste steel residues; and fourthly, the cross section design of the waste steel residue road embankment comprises the road embankment height, the side slope ratio of the road embankment, the building layer thickness, a top sealing layer, a bottom sealing layer, an intercalated layer, the slope protection and a drainage system. The invention has the advantages that the method is easy, the operation is convenient, the waste steel residue piling ground and the environmental pollution are reduced, the wastes are changed into valuables, the environmental protection is promoted, the method solves the problem that the highway engineering packing material is inadequate, the cost is low, and the quality of the built road bed can satisfy the construction requirements of the road bed of the higher grade highway.