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The future of healthcare: How to design a better blueprint

How do you build resilient healthcare that benefits patients, health carers and communities? It’s a complex challenge that requires a new approach, one that builds on lessons from the pandemic and introduces evidence-based design, tech-led innovation, cross-sector collaboration and hybrid skill sets. Our guests for this episode are pioneers in these fields: Matthew Holmes, Global Director of Health Infrastructure at Jacobs, and Dr. Diana Anderson, Dochitect and healthcare principal at Jacobs.

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Big Questions

Reimagining the future of water in Singapore

Jacobs President of Global Operations Patrick Hill recently wrote about pivotal global trends and how we’re laying the foundations for a more sustainable, prosperous and secure future at Jacobs. This week, Patrick is discussing these trends as they relate to the global water sector at Singapore International Water Week (SIWW). SIWW provides a platform to reimagine the role of water utilities and explore how themes like infrastructure modernization, the energy transition and climate response will shape the water sector’s future. Read Patrick's reflections on Singapore's future.

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Thought Leadership

Engaging to adapt: Building climate change into decision making

With its extensive 15,000-kilometer (~9,320-mile) coastline, New Zealand grapples with coastal erosion, coastal inundation and rising groundwater levels. Read how we’re helping New Zealand move from a defend-at-all-costs approach to a more holistic strategy of considering the whole coastal system.

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A view on the future of rail & transit: A Q&A with Maryam Hakimian

Public transportation systems, valued as some of the most equitable and sustainable modes of transportation, connect communities and help stimulate economic development. In this Q&A, Jacobs Project Manager Maryam Hakimian talks about trends in rail & transit today and how unique perspectives help co-create the world to come.

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Implementing a programmatic approach to decarbonizing cities

Jacobs releases new thought leadership paper that asks the question: What if city stakeholders used a programmatic approach, looking beyond traditional project and asset boundaries, to co-develop solutions that reduce carbon AND address the most urgent and aspirational needs of the community?

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Q&A

A view on the future of rail & transit: A Q&A with Alan Sharpe

Global demand for transport is rapidly increasing, with passenger rail and freight activity projected to more than double by 2050. While this growth signifies social and economic progress, it also leads to greater energy demand, increased carbon emissions and atmospheric pollutants. Read about Alan’s solutions to meet mobility needs for an increasingly urbanized world in the following Q&A.

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Thought Leadership

Regulatory considerations for delivering ATMP multi-model facilities

When it comes to the design and operation of multi-modal facilities, adhering to evolving regulatory requirements across varying jurisdictions is a key consideration. Jacobs’ Francesca McBride discuss the regulatory requirements needed to support the production of the following types of therapies and treatments.

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Thought Leadership

The roadmap to recovery: Transforming hospitals into catalysts for community benefits

The current scorecard for U.K. hospitals and healthcare estates isn’t encouraging. It’s saddled with a growing maintenance backlog — over $12 billion (£10 billion) — and it’s marred by pandemic scars and a staffing crisis. Combine this with a rapidly aging population facing increasing pensioner poverty and poor health, the COVID-19 patient backlog, inflation and a severe funding shortage — it creates a challenging prognosis.

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    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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