Insights for what's next

Explore practical perspectives that turn complex challenges and emerging trends into real-world outcomes.

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Aerial view of Staten Island, New York City, and Oil storage in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA.
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What is the future of freight? Let’s look to the past

While Federal and State governments pour millions of dollars into highway repairs, identifying and developing creative freight system solutions can improve resiliency and add redundancy to a freight system that has seen disruption as the demand for goods increases. Jacobs, the New Jersey Department of Transportation, and StreetLight Data have evaluated one such solutions—moving freight trucks on barges via waterways rather than by road.

Q&A with Chisomo Lungu Jacobs JavaScript Web Developer
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Meet our data solutions team: A Q&A with Chisomo Lungu

As a JavaScript Web Developer at Jacobs, Chisomo Lungu’s role primarily involves working with cutting-edge web technologies to build and enhance the company’s internal software projects. With a keen sense of aesthetics, a user-focused mindset, and an eye for detail, he works on leveraging React, TypeScript, Node.js, and other related technologies to ensure Jacobs delivers the best possible software solutions for the business.

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Women in sustainability: Q&A with Kayla Brown

Kayla Brown grew up in southwest Washington, U.S., immersing herself in the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest. Today she plays a critical role in providing high-quality water for residents in Vancouver, Washington, and brainstorming innovative sustainable solutions that leave a more sustainable footprint for the city, the wastewater treatment plant and the community.

Q&A with Lawrence Melkowski Jacobs Senior Aviation Planner, Middle East
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The growth of aviation infrastructure in the Middle East: A Q&A with Lawrence Melkowski

For this feature, we caught up with our Senior Aviation Planner in the Middle East Lawrence Melkowski to discuss the factors that influence planning, designing and developing airport facilities and services in the Middle East and how we can effectively balance economic viability with sustainable, technology-driven and environmentally-responsible practices in aviation.

Q&A with Shawn Makarsky Solutions Architect & Intelex Community of Excellence (CoE) Lead
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Meet our data solutions team: A Q&A with Shawn Makarsky

A member of Jacobs’ Environmental, Health, & Safety Information Management (EHS IM) team, Shawn Makarsky serves as the Solutions Architect & Intelex Community of Excellence (CoE) Lead. In his role, he is responsible for focusing on Jacobs’ Intelex practice, one of the enterprise software platforms with which we have a long-standing working partnership, in the form of configuring, troubleshooting and maintaining various applications that we have developed for our clients.

Jacobs interns in yellow PPE vests and white hardhats visit a project site
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The Jacobs internship experience: A Q&A with our interns

As our interns make their way back to campus, what better time than now to commemorate our amazing summer together! Our intern champions and mentors recognize that interns learn best when they work on projects and collaborate with team members directly. At Jacobs, interns engage with real-life situations and fully immerse themselves in transformative work.

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Go behind the scenes of our 2023 Rwanda Bridge build

For two weeks in July, 10 of our teammates were stationed in a village in Rwanda building a footbridge across the Kamiranzovu River that will enable the community to safely access critical resources. The team documented their experience – and we’re excited to share it with you in this exclusive feature, giving you behind-the-scenes access to the build.

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    Co-creating the world to come

    From developing climate resilience and transitioning to a low-carbon future, to modernizing and transforming infrastructure, governments and businesses face critical challenges. How they respond will define our future.

    As our clients navigate these challenges, we help them think differently – working together to pioneer tomorrow's infrastructure solutions and build the foundations for a prosperous, secure future. 

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