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Protecting the Thames Estuary: Modeling to provide a reliable evidence base to safeguard millions of residents and billions in assets

The Thames Estuary is home to 1.51 million people and more than £400 ($546) billion-worth of assets that are at risk from tidal flooding. To address this challenge, Jacobs and JBA Consulting are leading the Thames Estuary 2100 Modelling Project for the Environment Agency — a key pillar of the Thames Estuary 2100 strategy. The project strengthens understanding of flood risk and provides the robust evidence base needed to guide smarter decisions that protect homes, safeguard critical infrastructure and support sustainable growth. By delivering trusted and unified insights for climate resilience, it’s helping to build a safer future for one of the principal development areas in southern England.
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Jacobs’ data center digital twin featured in NVIDIA GTC keynote

During NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote presentation at the company’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday, March 16, 2026, the founder and CEO highlighted Jacobs. The NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint and libraries now features a Jacobs Data Center Digital Twin solution that enables developers and owners to plan, simulate and optimize gigawatt-scale artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, known as AI factories, in a virtual environment – improving time to first revenue, efficient energy performance and resilient long-term operations.
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Jacobs recognized for advancing climate resilience and environmental innovation

Jacobs has received five Environmental Business Journal and Climate Change Business Journal awards, recognizing[RK1.1] global leadership in climate resilience infrastructure, digital innovation, nature-based solutions and data-driven decarbonization, along with a lifetime achievement honor for industry leadership.
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Jacobs and Mott MacDonald appointed program partner by Thames Water in the UK

Jacobs and Mott MacDonald have been selected by Thames Water, the U.K.’s largest water and waste utility to support delivery of the company's Strategic Resource Options program. As program partner, the joint venture will provide program management and controls capability under an eight-year professional services framework agreement.

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Jacobs partners with the Florida A&M University to foster inclusion and empower future architects and engineers

At Jacobs, we understand that “inclusion” is a verb, not a noun. It means being transparent and taking action on our statements, commitments and initiatives that drive meaningful, measurable change. It means creating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive — a culture that we call TogetherBeyond℠. Read how Jacobs is putting TogetherBeyond into action by supporting Florida A&M University.

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Jacobs to support design, construction and operations for seawater desalination plant

Jacobs (NYSE: J) was selected by Water Corporation, the largest water utility in Western Australia, to design, build, operate and maintain the Alkimos Seawater Desalination Plant in Perth, Australia. The project, part of an alliance with Water Corporation and ACCIONA, is expected to produce 13 billion gallons (50 billion liters) of drinking water per year, scalable up to 26 billion gallons (100 billion liters) under a future project.

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Jacobs to restore NASA installations through environmental engineering

A Jacobs led joint venture (JV) was selected to provide environmental engineering, restoration and compliance services for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As an architect-engineer, Jacobs and JV partner Geosyntec will support safe, sustainable operations for multiple NASA centers, component facilities and other infrastructure assets.

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Jacobs supports ground-breaking airport hydrogen trial in the UK

A ground-breaking airside hydrogen refueling trial, led by easyJet and supported by Jacobs and cross-industry partners, has been successfully completed at Bristol Airport – the first airport trial of its kind at a major U.K. airport. Read more about how the trial demonstrates that the gas can be safely and reliably used to refuel ground equipment in a busy, live airport environment.

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Jacobs named lead designer on first design-build project awarded under Missouri’s Improve I-70 program

In case you missed it, Jacobs will lead design on the Missouri Department of Transportation’s first awarded design-build project under its Improve I-70 program. This first project will reconstruct a 20-mile stretch of Interstate 70 and pave the way for future improvements across the corridor. Read more about Jacobs’ selection for this critical infrastructure project in this article.