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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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Solving the Climate Challenge through Digital Innovation
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Solving the climate challenge through digital innovation

In their article for the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s special COP26 edition of The Geographer magazine, Adam Liddle, Jacobs Director of Sustainable Growth & Innovation, and Adrian Pinder, Jacobs Incubations & Products Director, discuss how innovative, global solutions can help to address the climate challenge.

Pictured: Jacobs teammates attend groundbreaking ceremony - from left to right Dan Lynch, Samer Sadek, Paula Sanjines, Ned Johnson, Mark Johnson, Rich Voigt.
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What’s at the end of the tunnel? A cleaner Potomac river, that’s what

An innovative tunnel system and the largest infrastructure project in the City of Alexandria, Virginia’s history has its first shovel in the ground. On September 30, 2021, officials from Alexandria Renew Enterprises (AlexRenew), Alexandria’s regional wastewater authority, and City officials gathered on the banks of the Potomac River at the future location of the Outfall 001 drop shaft and diversion structures to celebrate the beginnings of a construction project that was envisioned when AlexRenew assumed ownership of the City’s combined sewer outfalls in 2018. The event included a groundbreaking ceremony, a performance from The City of Alexandria Pipes and Drum, and a formal announcement by the Alexandria town crier.

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Jacobs wins US Department of state overseas buildings operations support contract

Jacobs was selected for a third consecutive architecture and engineering support services contract to continue supporting the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) by providing program-level process- and procedure-improvement support, existing facilities surveys and analyses, and other project-specific support such as master plans, security mitigation studies, site expansion studies, project phasing analysis and historic structures surveys. OBO estimates this Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract value at up to $250 million over five years.

US Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Impacts for Drinking Water Systems
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US infrastructure investment and jobs act impacts for drinking water systems

In this article, Jacobs Global Technology Leader for Drinking Water Quality Jennifer Liggett, Global Drinking Water & Reuse Solutions Director Russell Ford, and Financial Services Consulting Team Lead Mike Matichich, summarize the recent H.R. 3684 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act legislation, including what the investments and opportunities are for the water sector and how funding may be accessed.

Jacobs Chief Operating Officer Bob Pragada joins the Intel team for a groundbreaking ceremony.
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Intel and Jacobs: Solving the global semiconductor shortage

By making fab engineering more cost effective, reliable and repeatable, Jacobs is supporting Intel’s goals to increase domestic chipmaking capacity, end the semiconductor shortage, meet global demand and create a more balanced, resilient global supply chain.

Redefining Coastal Squeeze: A Report for the Environment Agency
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Redefining coastal squeeze: A report for the environment agency

Jacobs Global Technology Director - Coastal Planning & Engineering Professor Nigel Pontee recently led the production of a report for the UK Environment Agency which will inform future assessment of coastal squeeze and the requirement for the creation of compensatory habitat.

Jacobs Secures Place on England’s National Highways Scheme Delivery Framework
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Jacobs secures place on England’s National Highways Scheme Delivery Framework

Jacobs has been awarded a place on National Highways (formerly Highways England) Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) to design renewal and improvement schemes on England’s strategic road network, including preliminary design, detail design and site supervision services. The SDF is the start of a new way to keep England’s motorways and major roads in top condition and Jacobs will be leveraging our full digital and data analytics capabilities to transform how we deliver our design services, which will provide best in class cost and schedule and quality reliability and lead to an overall enhanced customer experience. National Highways has appointed Jacobs to three lots on the framework, the maximum possible to be awarded to any one supplier for design services. These lots include the South East Region, North East Region and Central Super Region of England. National Highways’ investment in the six-year framework is projected to be approximately $3.7 billion (£2.7bn) to maintain their strategic road network and keep England moving. "National Highways has created a transformative outcome-focused framework that puts sustainability and future needs at the heart of road network planning. Jacobs will be working closely with a range of small organizations and social groups to really embed sustainable social value and put National Highways’ vision into practice,” says Jacobs People & Places Solutions Senior Vice President Europe and Digital Strategies Donald Morrison. “At Jacobs we’re using data and technology to challenge how we work today, and in doing so improving the solutions we create to solve our client’s challenges