From Concept to Connection: JSM Group in Your Business with James Caan
JSM Group features in the Autumn 2026 issue of Your Business with James Caan, with three pieces from our leadership team.
From concept to connection (pages 10 to 11)
CEO Michael Booth explains the thinking behind our rebrand and the launch of JSM Advisory. JSM Group now works across three connected business lines:
- Power: From Ideas to Energy
- Digital Infrastructure: From Demand to Data
- Advisory: From Insight to Infrastructure
“High-risk, high-cost, high-complexity, these are the real pressures behind every digital infrastructure and HV power project,” says Michael. “Advisory means we can bring that same in-house rigour to the earliest stage of a project, not just the delivery stage.”
Since 1998 we have grown from a London-based connections business to more than 350 people across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. In that time we have built substations, laid HV cable, connected hyperscale data centres to the grid and installed fibre networks for major telecoms carriers. Our in-house design, civils and installation teams deliver every project, giving clients tighter control of cost, programme and safety.
Light work (page 262)
COO John Scanlon looks at how hollow core fibre is moving into live production networks. By replacing a fibre’s solid glass core with an air-filled channel, it cuts latency by up to half compared with standard single-mode fibre.
Powering progress (page 264)
Power MD Martyn Crocker explains how Gate 2 Phase 1 of Connections Reform is giving well-prepared developers a realistic path to energisation.
