The construction industry is undergoing a change in approaches to the design of capital construction projects due to the preparation of consolidated digital models in the course of designing and working with the information placed therein. This requires updating the content and changing the format of training students in the fields of study and specialties related to the design of capital construction projects and their engineering systems. Based on the comparison of the current format of training engineering students to the format of professional activities of engineers involved in the design of capital construction projects, it is shown that today's training system does not fully take into account the specifics of team work of engineers of various profiles in the course of project development. The necessity of using methods of cross-discipline team training is substantiated. It is proposed to use the best practices in competence R94 "Engineering Design" of the WorldSkills Russia "Young Professionals" national championship as a methodological basis for organizing such training format. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).