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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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Long Island Rail Road expansion opens in New York

A major expansion to the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)’s Main Line is now open to the public. Extending from Floral Park to Hicksville, New York, the 9.8-mile third track expansion to the LIRR Main Line increases capacity by 50%, alleviates congestion during peak hours, improves overall rail services and enhances rider safety. Read more to find out about this iconic project.

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Environment Analyst ranks Jacobs top environmental & sustainability consultancy in the world overall, in the UK

In its annual Market Assessments of the Environmental Consulting Sector, Environment Analyst ranks Jacobs as the No. 1 Environmental & Sustainability Consultancy in the world, and in the U.K. (for the second year in a row), recognizing the firm’s leadership working with the public and private sector to integrate sustainable development and environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles and practices into their business and operations.

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Jacobs’ New York City underwater inspection team thrilled to dive into $10M contract extension

Did you know that we have a full-service Underwater Inspection Group at Jacobs? It includes a professional engineer dive team with more than 20 commercially-trained diving professionals with experience in marine engineering, commercial diving, underwater inspection and underwater construction. Since many are also professional engineers, they can complete all project aspects — from inspection through to design and/or rehabilitation.

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Jacobs joins Race to Resilience

Jacobs has joined the Race to Resilience campaign, supporting global resilience efforts and strengthening the work we do to create resilient solutions across society. Learn more about why we’ve joined this global campaign.