The mission of the Project Based Learning Laboratory (PBL Lab) at Stanford is to prepare the next generation of AEC professionals who know how to team up with professionals from other disciplines worldwide and leverage the advantages of innovative collaboration technologies to produce higher quality products, faster, more economical, and environmentally friendly. The goal is for these students to become leaders in global teamwork. The objective is a sustained effort in an integrated research and curriculum to develop, test, deploy, and assess radically new collaboration technologies, workspaces, processes, learning and teamwork models that support cross-disciplinary, geographically distributed teams.