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.

FOCUS
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Energy efficiency

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Hospital decarbonisation

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Open data & machine learning

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Decision-making

EXPERIENCE

2025 – Present

Research Lead

CompliMind ↗

Oct 2024 – Present

Supervisor

University of Cambridge

Jun – Jul 2023

Sustainability & Building Physics Consultant

Buro Happold

2021 – 2022

Technical Services Manager

ISG Ltd

EDUCATION

2024 – Present

PhD, Energy Efficient Healthcare BuildingsSecondment to Stanford University

University of Cambridge · EECi ↗

2023 – 2024

MRes, Future Infrastructure & Built Environment

University of Cambridge · FIBE2 CDT ↗

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.

PUBLICATIONS

Organised for continuity, not for net zero: Retrofit decision-making in NHS hospital estates

Monty Jackson

CONFERENCE POSTER · OXFORD ENERGY DAY · OXFORD, SEPTEMBER 2026

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Operational Energy & Infrastructure Risk in NHS Hospitals: Electricity as the Binding Constraint

Monty Jackson, Ruchi Choudhary

CONFERENCE POSTER · EUROPEAN HEALTHCARE DESIGN · LONDON, JUNE 2026

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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

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