NG Bailey low carbon director: portfolio resilience lessons for project teams
Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
NG Bailey has created a new low carbon director role and appointed Jonathan Kershaw, former managing director of Dalkia Energy Services, to lead development of its low carbon business across the group. Kershaw will design and implement a strategic plan that uses data insight, engineering expertise and on-site delivery to cut operational carbon in building and infrastructure assets and quantify long-term value. With 15 years’ experience in carbon reduction and resilience on large infrastructure projects, he is tasked with accelerating clients’ transition to more efficient, resilient building portfolios.
Technical Brief
- Mandate covers both operational performance and resilience, not just capital-phase carbon interventions.
- Long-term value framing indicates whole-life cost and carbon modelling, not simple payback-only assessments.
Our Take
NG Bailey’s recent acquisition of Engineering Solutions Group, which works extensively with UK water utilities and the Environment Agency, suggests the new low carbon role will have scope to embed decarbonisation across both building services and water-related infrastructure portfolios.
Being part of the MEH alliance at Hinkley Point C places NG Bailey in one of the UK’s most scrutinised infrastructure environments; a dedicated low carbon director can help align carbon-reduction initiatives with increasingly stringent nuclear and safety regulatory expectations.
In our database of 821 Infrastructure stories, NG Bailey now appears both in project-delivery and sustainability-tagged pieces, signalling that clients may begin to view the firm less as a pure M&E contractor and more as a partner for whole-life carbon and resilience strategy on major UK projects.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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