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Jacobs reports strong fiscal second quarter 2026 results

Robust Q2 gross revenue and adjusted net revenue growth of 27% and 9% y/y, respectively Record backlog of $27.0 billion, up 22% y/y with TTM book-to-bill ratio of 1.4x (1.2x Adj. NR) Engineering News-Record ranks Jacobs #1 Design Firm and #1 in Manufacturing Repurchased $220 million of Jacobs shares in
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Best of both worlds: Houston’s vision for major events and connected infrastructure

Houston, Texas is widely known for its space and science contributions. NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center sits just south of the city, its professional basketball team is The Rockets and it’s affectionally nicknamed Space City, which stems from Houston being one of the first words spoken from the moon. But did you know that the city ranks as one of the top 25 major U.S. cities for convention, conference and seminar travelers? Houston – home to one of the nation's 10th largest convention centers, the George R. Brown Convention Center – hosted more than 431 conventions, events and shows in 2016, drawing in nearly 630,000 attendees and an estimated economic impact of $253 million. Named for Houstonian George Rufus Brown, an internationally recognized entrepreneur, engineer and philanthropist who donated six of the 11 blocks necessary to build, the convention center first opened in the fall of 1987, grew from 1.15 million square feet to 1.8 million square feet in 2001, and added more connectivity with the surrounding neighborhoods with a 2014 expansion. As Houston looks ahead to its future competitiveness and memorable visitor experience, Houston First Corporation, which operates the center and several other convention and art facilities, has chosen to yet again revitalize the iconic Houston fixture – partnering with Jacobs as its architect and engineer to lead a multi-discipline design team for the planned convention center improvements. Our Global Vice President for the Built Environment Brad Simmons recently discussed the decade-long project, which could include additional work

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How the fastest growing U.S. metro area is managing high density traffic

Between 2010 and 2016, close to a million people ditched The Big Apple, recording the biggest loss of residents by any major U.S. metro area in that period – but where’d they all go? Well, Dallas seems likely. The city added the most residents during that timeframe, compelled by an economic increase of four percent annually on average and the addition of almost 100,000 jobs a year. The job growth is closely tied to relocations of large companies from other parts of the country, some of the most notable being Jamba Juice’s corporate headquarters, divisions of mobility greats including Toyota and Boeing and even Jacobs’ own relocation of our corporate headquarters from Pasadena, California, to Dallas in 2016. Reminiscent of Los Angeles’ expansion in the late 1970s and 80s, Dallas’ growth, despite being impressive, could signal future headaches for the city, including increases in traffic congestion, housing costs and pressures on other critical infrastructure such as water and power systems. But what if we showed you how Automated Transportation System (ATS) technologies – being studied in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex with Jacobs’ guidance – could be the city’s best response to connecting Dallasites, keeping them on the move for years to come? $1B in estimated construction savings achieved through right-sizing parking throughout Dallas Midtown to encourage ATS and public transit use 1.3K or more rides per day projected for the ATS system's inner loop The automated transportation system leverages innovation and technology as Dallas Midtown takes shape to not only

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Jacobs innovator recognized with SAME mentoring award

Working to accelerate and lead the change in the built environment industry to shape a sustainable future, Dr. John Mogge is never satisfied with the status quo. Being innovative is at the heart of John’s role as Jacobs director of federal solutions and technology for the Buildings, Infrastructure and Advanced Facilities business, and he encourages everyone to be imaginative on the job, imaging the possibilities of how asking “what if” can tap into the level of inventiveness and natural creative capability we all have. John says personally, he tries to develop creative value through the application of two core sustainability principles and a discipline of innovation. “The principles that guide my creative thought around the possibilities of ‘what if’ include the notions of exceptional resource efficiency that must be balanced on focused client needs and a recognition that the economics of sustainability matter,” he says. “The innovation discipline is a method of focusing on what I see as the most important client needs, my approach to address those needs and the benefits generated for the client, the environment, the economy and society. I've found that it is through this 'calculus' of the right principles and a disciplined-based filter that we can almost universally generate creative and differentiating value in our work." He continues, “For me, over the last 18 years, Jacobs has provided me opportunities as a project manager, program manager, business leader, business developer, innovator and technology leader while staying true to the same core values embedded in the

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How Singapore turned its water woes into a NEWater model

Water taps are running dry in India and South Africa. California is once again facing a drought; Australia is currently in the grips of a super drought – the hottest and driest on record; and in 2015, drought and inefficient infrastructure led to a severe water shortage crisis in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Rain falling across the Asia Pacific is causing severe flooding and some hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rican communities still do not have access to critical water and power supplies more than two years after Hurricane Maria. Similarly, residents of Flint, Michigan, are still reeling from the effects of a contaminated drinking water system. Each year, the natural and human-made threats to our global water supply get more complex; while populations surge and the demand for water across industries increases. More than 2.1 billion people lack access to safe water around the world and The World Economic Forum continues to list water crises as one of the top ten global risks both in terms of likelihood and impact each year. The crisis facing our water supply demands a new way of thinking to create integrated, smart and sustainable solutions that embrace the challenges facing our world today – because if current usage trends don’t change, our world will have only 60% of the water it needs in 2030. But what if we showed you how Singapore’s Public Utilities Board (PUB) and Jacobs turned water vulnerability into an opportunity to pilot new technologies and innovative solutions – serving as an international model

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How Florida is accelerating the future of smart vehicles

First hitting TV screens in the 1960s, The Jetsons captured the attention of American children for decades with its animated look at the future complete with robots, holograms and flying cars – and until recently, these technologies seemed about as far-fetched as one of the program’s 30-minute episodes. While envisioning zooming through your commute in a self-driving vehicle might still feel like something straight out of Orbit City, one in three Americans believe that a driverless city – with cars and public transportation operating autonomously – will be reality within the next 10 years, according to a study from Intel. Self-driving vehicles have certainly been in overdrive during past few years – with Google spinoff Waymo starting its commercial self-driving car service in Phoenix suburbs in late 2018 and Anheuser-Busch and tech company Otto conducting the world’s first commercial shipment by an autonomous vehicle (a 2016 shipment of Budweiser beer across more than 132-miles that holds the Guinness World Record for “longest continuous journey by a driverless and autonomous lorry). Yet, there’s quite a long road ahead for the emerging technology before these vehicles become a regular part of society. But what if we showed you how Jacobs and a group of Florida organizations are accelerating the future of transportation with a continuously evolving, internationally recognized center for the development of automated driving systems? 200 acre infield for testing emerging technologies in various simulated scenarios to maximize performance, safety and more 2.25 mile oval track for high-speed testing of autonomous

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Jacobs study demonstrates effective removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances from soil

Advancing the science for treating Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS), Jacobs’ Principal Hydrogeologist and Emerging Contaminants Leader Bill DiGuiseppi discusses the company’s recent bench scale test results for thermal desorption of PFAS from aqueous film forming foam. Working ahead of regulatory requirements, our Emerging Contaminants team at Jacobs has partnered with clients, academic partners and remediation vendors for more than five years to develop and test methods for treating PFAS. Although there are hundreds of individual PFAS, the most commonly encountered in environmental media are perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS). PFAS have unique surfactant properties that make them repel both water and oil. They have been used extensively in surface coatings and protective formulations for paper and cardboard packaging products, carpets, leather products and textiles, as well as industrial surfactants, emulsifiers, wetting agents, additives and coatings. Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF), another source of PFAS and the focus of our most recent treatment and mitigation investigation, was designed to quickly extinguish flammable liquids and was in common use at facilities at risk for petroleum fires. PFAS were released to soil, sediment, surface water and groundwater at fire training areas, fire stations, storage facilities, hangers and emergency response locations around the world. Why are PFAS a concern? PFAS have been found in almost all human blood samples collected worldwide. Some PFAS, such as PFOS, bioaccumulate and biomagnify in wildlife species such as fish and fish-eating birds. In animal studies, some PFAS disrupt normal endocrine activity, reduce immune

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How digital twin and analytics improve operations, minimize costs

What’s the common thread between Minnesota’s professional baseball team, Vin Diesel and Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap? They’re all twins. About one in every 32 children is born a twin, accounting for roughly three percent of the population and ironically, both Jacobs Global Digital Solutions Director Raja Kadiyala and one of the Replica ™ developers Matt Deavenport, fathered twins. The twinning rate has doubled over the last two decades but spotting a set of twins at the supermarket or on your TV screen is still a fun, somewhat remarkable occurrence. In today’s technological world however, digital representations of physical assets, processes and systems – or digital twins – are rapidly becoming a preferred practice across markets from buildings and railway lines to wastewater treatment and manufacturing plants. By 2020, IDC expects that 30% of Forbes Global 2000 companies will use data from digital twins of Internet of Things (IoT) -connected products and assets to improve product innovation success rates and organization productivity. But what if we showed you how a Jacobs-designed simulation platform and digital analytics are rapidly developing digital twin models – right now – for water and industrial water-related processes, helping a customer improve operation performance, while minimizing energy and chemical usage? 33% reduction in energy consumption using control logic operational improvements [confidential private sector client] 2022 when Gartner predicted digital twins would reach peak productivity We surveyed 30 of our water and wastewater utility partners about big data management in 2017. Resoundingly, respondents noted that the

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How drones are guiding major construction at U.S. ports

In 2019, nearly 40 million flights took to the sky – demonstrating the new heights modern air travel has reached since the first documented flight in history, a short 12 seconds of airtime over 120 feet completed by Orville Wright in 1903. While certainly most well-known for that flight, Wright also is one of the masterminds behind the humble beginnings of one of the most popular technologies of the current decade – unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones. Wright and electrical engineer Charles F. Kettering developed the first functioning UAV, a 12-foot-long wooden biplane with a 15-foot-wingspan, carrying an 180-pound bomb, as part of a secret project during World War I. According to estimates, drone technology today equates to global revenues of more than $127 million across business solutions ranging from NASA exploring drone technology to visit Saturn’s moon, Titan, to Domino’s becoming the first company to use a drone to deliver pizza. Drone technology is touted for its benefits including advancing efficiency and productivity, lowering workload and production costs, improving accuracy and service and heightening security measures across society. But what if we showed you how Jacobs harnessed UAV technology to deliver aerial construction progress images, reducing required data-processing time and allowing the Port of Virginia to make smart, real-time business decisions throughout a $320 million expansion project at the Virginia International Gateway? 60 acre expansion imaged by drone to track construction progress 50%+ more images generated using efficient drone technology to enhance coordination and heighten safety Unmanned aerial

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How this platform revolutionizes management of assets and operations

Cars, factories, ports, refineries, roads, office buildings and even entire cities are already communicating together in ways that fundamentally change how people and systems interact. More than ever, companies are looking for greater efficiency and cost reduction across their enterprise to compete and prosper in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape or risk being left behind. But what if we showed you how implementing an open, intelligent, industrial application platform, various sites at one international manufacturing company realized a 70% improvement in efficiency, safety and emergency response time by leveraging the power of digitization with Jacobs’ ion platform? 70% or more reduction in hazardous incident response time through accurate, real-time information 25% increase in productivity, and 30-40% reduction in maintenance costs Intelligent industrial applications and services First commissioned in a heavy processing market in 2009, ion delivers, extends and manages the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) with the only open, intelligent and industrial application platform. ion contains a modular suite of applications that address critical safety, security, accountability, compliance and performance monitoring and workflow optimization needs within industrial sites and facilities. Jacobs’ ion integrates hardware, IIOT devices, analytics and applications with a robust engine for rules, events, visualization and notifications into a single tailorable platform. The solution uses active monitoring to enhance security and reliability, and automates processes for personnel safety and accountability with location tracking, mustering and emergency notification. Condition-based monitoring and asset material tracking improves plant uptime and availability. Improve worker safety Seeking to automate personnel safety processes and

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Jacobs, King County Wastewater Treatment Division recognized for beneficial green infrastructure

DALLAS , Jan. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:JEC) and King County Wastewater Treatment Division received the Envision Platinum designation for the new $250 million Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station (WWTS), underscoring its positive social, economic and environmental benefits for the community. The Jacobs-led consultant team worked alongside King County to develop a sustainable and resilient treatment station with conveyance and outfall structure to treat combined sewer overflows prior to discharge into the Lower Duwamish Waterway – keeping an estimated 95 percent of untreated overflows from entering local waterways. Awarded by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) , Georgetown WWTS is the first Platinum-awarded Envision project in Washington state . The ISI Envision rating system examines the impact of sustainable infrastructure holistically across five categories: quality of life, leadership, resource allocation, natural world and climate and resilience. " The Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station integrates technical innovation and sustainable solutions, serving as a community asset," said Jacobs COO and President of Buildings, Infrastructure and Advanced Facilities Bob Pragada . "We developed this project – in close collaboration with King County and the local community – with sustainability as a central theme, showcasing the county's commitment to protecting the environment and proactivity ahead of unpredictable storm and wet weather instances impacted by sea level rise and climate variability over the next several decades." While siting and planning the project, the Jacobs team used 3D models and a Virtual Reality (VR) environment to optimize layouts for function and space planning, ensuring the

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Jacobs named engineering design manager for California WaterFix

Since the time this press release was issued, this project has been renamed the Delta Conveyance Project . Estimated at $20 billion, this program is considered an essential resiliency and climate adaptation strategy that will protect the future of our water supply in California. DALLAS , Jan. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:JEC) has been selected by the Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Authority (DCA) for engineering design management (EDM) services related to the California WaterFix program. Estimated at $17 billion in 2017, WaterFix is California's largest water conveyance project, designed to bolster the reliability of the state's water supplies, while protecting and enhancing the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary, a vital environmental asset. The California WaterFix program, slated to begin in early 2019, will upgrade outdated and unreliable water infrastructure that is more than 50 years old and dependent on levees that put clean water supply at risk from earthquakes and sea-level rise. "WaterFix is one of the highest profile infrastructure projects in the nation, essential to secure clean water supplies for 27 million people, area businesses and three million acres of agricultural land," said Jacobs COO and President of Buildings, Infrastructure and Advanced Facilities Bob Pragada . "Building on our long-term relationship with California water agencies, DCA will tap into our extensive water infrastructure and engineering design experience to begin modernization of California's water delivery system." Jacobs' initial $93 million contract with DCA will support the preliminary and final engineering design phase of the 15-year program. Major infrastructure components

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Jacobs recognized for technology leadership in digital environment, health and safety services

Jacobs is again rated an industry leader in environment, health and safety (EHS) technical solutions expertise, as confirmed by independent research firm, Verdantix, which released its 2018 Green Quadrant Digital EHS Services report. The assessment placed the most advanced service providers into one of four quadrants: Leaders, Innovators, Specialists and Challengers, based on 113 performance criteria covering the digitization of projects over a wide range of EHS conditions, as well as deployment of innovative EHS technology solutions. “Our leadership is predicated on deep knowledge within Jacobs of our clients’ industries and processes, our ability to integrate both proven and leading-edge technologies and most importantly, our multi-disciplinary EHS professionals who are committed to enhancing efficiencies for environmental protection and safety,” said Jacobs Global Environmental Solutions Senior Vice President, General Manager Jan Walstrom. The report distinguishes Jacobs as a leader among peers for providing digitally-enabled EHS technology services, with seamless management of EHS and operational data for firms operating in high-risk environments. We were recognized for our dedicated team executing on our Technology & Innovation (Jacobs Connected Enterprise) strategy, which is charged with delivering high-value, digitally-enabled innovations for a more connected, sustainable world. Combining digital EHS in-house solutions with a network of technology service partners has enabled Jacobs to enhance EHS using drones, VR technology and wearables. Jacobs’ EHS client benefits referenced by Verdantix in the report include: Leveraging an integrated management system that aligned engineering, supply chain, IT and financial services for a high-tech manufacturing firm to minimize the environmental impact