Handbook of Research on Driving Transformational Change in the Digital Built Environment

"This book focuses on some of the current developments in practice and education within the construction industry towards facilitating the transformation in the digitally-built environment. In particular, from a practice perspective, developments are presented to enhance the client's understanding of digitally-enabled collaboration, interoperability and open standards, and maturity/capability and offers approaches to embedding digital construction within education"--

Jason Underwood is a Professor 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. He has over 25 year's research 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. 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).

Dr. Mark Shelbourn is the Head of the Centre for Built Environment at Birmingham City University and is responsible for the leadership and management of the Centre. Mark is an executive board member of the Council of Heads of Built Environment (CHOBE), and is the Region 8 Director of the Associated Schools of Construction and my ongoing work with the Academic Interoperability Coalition in Digital Education in the Built Environment. Mark is an active member of the Behaviours4Collaboration (B4C) group. The group is aiming to make the industry aware of the benefits of using collaborative working activities in projects within the industry. Mark is the leader of many digitally enhanced modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. These modules bring together over 25years of research and enterprise activities, industry contacts and case studies to bring a fresh look at Digital construction into the classroom.