Jason Underwood is a Professor of BIM & Digital Built Environments and Programme Director of the MSc. in Building Information Modelling (BIM) & Digital Built Environments in the School of Science, Engineering & Environment at the University of Salford, and a Chartered Psychologist. He has over 25 years of research and enterprise experience in the areas of concurrent engineering, integrated and collaborative computing in construction, product and building information modelling, digital built environments, collaborative construction and behaviours, BIM maturity assessment, BIM education and training in the development of BIM capabilities, and organisational e-readiness towards delivering strategic value from ICT/BIM investment. Through leading/involvement in both UK and EU funded research/KTP/KE projects, he has published extensively. He is actively engaged in the digital transformation of the UK construction industry through affiliations at international, national, and regional levels, the current Chair of the UK BIM Academic Forum, and Director of Construct IT For Business, an industry-led non-profit making collaborative membership-based network. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Digital Innovation in the Built Environments (IJDIBE).