32nd AEC Global Teamwork Annual Event

We were excited to meet in person at Stanford and on Zoom for inspiring AEC global student team presentations and lively discussions/Q&A of their projects with industry mentors, announce the winners of this year’s 3 challenges – sustainability, IPD, and technology, and celebrate our AEC global teamwork journey.

 This year's theme was:
Generative Minds for a Better World: AI-Enhanced Collaboration and High-Performance Buildings

AEC global student teams were invited to address this year’s theme and the 3 challenges:

19th Sustainability Challenge: Time: Define Your Sustainability Impact in the Temporal Dimension
PBL Lab Liaison: Adhamina Rodriguez, Founder and CEO, AR Green Consulting & Peter Hau, VP, Swinerton

16th IPD Challenge: T-Mind: Cultivating a Team Mindset in support of Productivity in the Construction 4.0 Age
PBL Lab Liaison: Tony Dong, Ph.D., Head of Technology and Innovation, DPR Construction

7th Technology Challenge: SIS Chain: Sustainable Intelligent Supply Chain
PBL Lab Liaison: Renate Fruchter, Ph.D. Founding Director of the PBL Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Stanford University

We had 24 students from Stanford and 9 partner universities worldwide, representing 5 disciplines - architecture, structural and MEP engineering, construction management, and life cycle financial management (LCFM) coming originally from 16 countries. They engaged in three AEC-MEP-LCFM globally distributed project teams. They learned to collaborate and virtually design and build university buildings addressing local hazards such as earthquakes and hurricanes. 48 industry and faculty mentors participated in-person and another 30 mentors in zoom to discuss the student teams projects, team process, and proposals to address this year's theme and 3 challenges. The AEC student projects and presentatations were reviewed and evaluated by industry mentor-judges. The winners are:

19th Sustainability Challenge: Central2025 team 16th IPD Challenge: Pacific2025 team  7th Technology Challenge: Pacific2025 team and Island2025 team Youtube links to the AEC2025 team presentations

• Pacific team - https://youtu.be/d8UOXMbbNU4
• Central team - https://youtu.be/FCgnLkVhkjo
• Island team  - https://youtu.be/GJXFSrY17uk

Their presentations as well as past year challenges and AEC team presentations can be viewed on the PBL Lab - AEC PROJECTS gallery website - https://pbl.stanford.edu