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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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Webinar: Catch our insights on outsourcing for public-private partnerships

The pandemic and subsequent economic downturn have reduced budgets and resource pools for many local governments. Outsourcing and public-private partnerships provide an avenue for recovery, but planning and proper consideration are essential when deciding whether to outsource key services. In an upcoming webinar on December 14, sponsored by the International City/County Management Association, Jacobs Program Manager Jim Nichols will discuss the advantages and potential downsides of outsourced services and public-private partnerships.

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Jacobs wins UK accolade for supporting Carers

We’ve been certified as a Carer Confident Active Employer! Read how we’re building a positive, inclusive workplace for everyone – including the growing number of employees who are, or will become, carers.

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The future of Jacobs: Our extraordinary young talent

Building upon our core value of living inclusion, investing in our young talent from all communities was one of our priorities during our internship program. Read how in this new jacobs.com article, published ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3.

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Jacobs Mace supports the Expo 2020 Dubai opening

DALLAS, Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jacobs Mace joint venture (JV) celebrates Expo 2020 Dubai as visitors discover 192 country pavilions and a host of signature thematic pavilions, thrilling entertainment and state-of-the-art innovative technologies. As the Official Program Delivery Management Provider for Expo 2020 Dubai, Jacobs Mace worked alongside the Expo team in managing the overall program delivery and masterplan of the infrastructure and public realm spaces for the event through to the site's transition to a people-centric smart city, District 2020. The JV assisted Expo in managing more than 40 individual projects that run 24/7, including design management, urban planning, procurement services, construction/project management and logistics, across the three Thematic Districts, public realm and the Al Wasl Plaza centerpiece. "We've helped drive the transformation of the site into a lasting urban legacy, that unites the world to innovate and create meaningful impact for future generations," said Jacobs Vice President Amer Battikhi. "The Jacobs Mace JV worked alongside Expo all the way, from our work managing the masterplan and delivering the arrivals plazas and public realm spaces to our monitoring role in the construction of the thematic pavilions. We worked with Expo to make sure the experience truly inspires visitors and helps them understand their role in creating a more connected, sustainable world." The Thematic Pavilions, Sustainability (Terra), Mobility (Alif) and Opportunity (Mission Impossible), are designed to inspire meaningful action from people to tackle some of the world's most critical challenges and embrace emerging opportunities posed by climate change

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

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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.

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.

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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.