Dr Jason Challender has acquired thirty-three years ‘client side’ experience in the UK construction industry and procured numerous successful major construction programmes during this time. He was Director of Estates and Facilities at the University of Salford, member of its Senior Leadership Team and responsible for overseeing a large department of approximately 350 estates and construction related staff. He is also a construction researcher with ten books and twelve published academic journal and conference papers in recent years, all of which have been dedicated to his studies around construction and engineering management. Furthermore, he has previously participated as a book reviewer for Wiley. He is a former mature student at the University of Bolton, having completed three back to back post graduate qualification, and was for some years a student union faculty representative. He was also a Visiting Professor and Chair of its Industry Advisory Board. He has also attended many national and international construction and institutional conferences as a guest speaker over the years and is a Fellow and former Board Director of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a current Board member of the Northwest Construction Hub.