Monty
Jackson.
Decarbonising the built environment — researching energy-efficient retrofits for NHS hospital buildings at the University of Cambridge.
About
me.
My background is in Architectural & Energy Engineering, and I am currently pursuing a PhD in Hospital Energy Retrofit at the University of Cambridge. My work sits at the intersection of energy, data, and decision-making, with a focus on improving how complex building portfolios are understood and managed. Alongside this, I work as Research Lead at CompliMind, where I contribute to translating healthcare estates, compliance, and digital maturity challenges into practical analytics and reporting tools for NHS and built-environment clients.
My research focuses on improving 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 better understand how buildings perform and how retrofit decisions are made in practice. I am 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.