Figuring out what data can tell us about hospitals.
My background is in architectural and energy engineering. I'm a PhD researcher at the Energy Efficient Cities initiative, University of Cambridge, and Research Lead at CompliMind, where the same questions arrive with deadlines attached.
The work sits at the intersection of energy, data and decision-making: open-source data and machine learning on one side, interviews with NHS estates professionals on the other, and a way to prioritise retrofit across an estate too large to survey building by building.
Energy efficiency
Hospital decarbonisation
Open data & machine learning
Decision-making
Oct 2024 – Present
Supervisor
University of Cambridge
Jun – Jul 2023
Sustainability & Building Physics Consultant
Buro Happold
2021 – 2022
Technical Services Manager
ISG Ltd
2024 – Present
PhD, Energy Efficient Healthcare BuildingsSecondment to Stanford University
University of Cambridge · EECi ↗
2019 – 2023
BSc, Architectural Engineering
University of Plymouth
My research improves the energy performance of NHS hospital buildings in England using open-source data and machine learning. I combine large-scale quantitative analysis with insights from NHS estates professionals to understand both how buildings perform and how retrofit decisions are made in practice.
I'm developing data-driven models and a prototype decision-support approach to help estates teams identify and prioritise interventions across complex hospital estates, with the long-term aim of supporting scalable decarbonisation.
Organised for continuity, not for net zero: Retrofit decision-making in NHS hospital estates
Monty Jackson
CONFERENCE POSTER · OXFORD ENERGY DAY · OXFORD, SEPTEMBER 2026
Operational Energy & Infrastructure Risk in NHS Hospitals: Electricity as the Binding Constraint
Monty Jackson, Ruchi Choudhary
CONFERENCE POSTER · EUROPEAN HEALTHCARE DESIGN · LONDON, JUNE 2026
Automated building energy modeling for energy retrofits using a large language model-based multi-agent framework
Jie Lu, Zeyu Zheng, Max Langtry, Monty Jackson, Yang Zhao, Chenxin Feng, Ruqian Zhang, Chaobo Zhang, Jian Zhang, Ruchi Choudhary
JOURNAL PAPER · iSCIENCE 28(11) · NOVEMBER 2025