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Explore the latest announcements, press coverage and company updates showing the solutions we’re creating with clients, the positive difference we’re making in our communities and the value we’re delivering to shareholders. 

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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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Closing the gap – LA River Path will link underserved communities to provide a sustainable, regional active transportation corridor

What if you could move actively through the center of car-centric Los Angeles without ever worrying about traffic? Well, the missing link in an ambitious downtown Los Angeles pedestrian and bicyclist path is a few steps closer to completion. Located in a complex corridor beside the channelized Los Angeles River and through constrained urban and industrial areas, the LA River Path Project is a critical link not only for transportation, but for connecting neighborhoods on both sides of the river.

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Innovative, sustainable flood and coastal erosion risk management

As our appreciation of future uncertainty grows, adaptive planning is becoming routinely considered as an alternative to more traditional flood and risk management approaches. We are working to ensure the long-term resiliency and cost-effectiveness of planning decisions we make today. Read more about this work on three strategically important flood risk protection projects in the U.K.

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Jacobs recognized for environmental industry leadership with six business achievement awards

Jacobs has been recognized by Environmental Business International (EBI) with six business achievement awards in 2020 for leadership and outstanding performance in Climate Action, Justice & Equality, COVID Response, Hydrogen Economy, Nature-based Design, and Adaptation and Resilience Solutions. The annual awards are administered by Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) and Climate Change Business Journal (CCBJ), two leading sources of business intelligence in the environmental industry.

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Jacobs declares quarterly dividend

The Board of Directors of Jacobs has declared a quarterly cash dividend payable to shareholders in the amount of $0.21 per share of Jacobs common stock. This dividend will be paid on June 25, 2021, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 28, 2021.

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Jacobs/Morrison Energy Services joint venture awarded position on national grid's six-year transmission substation delivery framework

Jacobs/Morrison Energy Services Joint Venture (JV) has been awarded a place on National Grid's six-year Substations Engineering Procurement Construction Framework in the U.K. The framework will provide collaborative and long-term support through program management, early contractor involvement, design and construction to deliver National Grid's performance-based substation regulatory program under RIIO-T2, where revenue generated is realized through a combination of incentives, innovation and outputs. National Grid estimates the contract value at $1.3 billion (£1 billion).

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Jacobs Mace supports the expo 2020 Dubai pavilion premiere

As Official Programme Delivery Management Provider to Expo 2020 Dubai, we share more about the Pavilions Premiere, which previewed Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion. Read this article for more about Terra’s immersive journey through the natural world, to empower people to become agents of change in protecting the environment:

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Jacobs awarded Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's asset management services contract

Jacobs was selected by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority to provide Facilities Condition Assessment (FCA) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Services. This work will help the Airports Authority plan for airport enhancements to improve the overall airline and passenger experience at both Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD).