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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 to deliver upgrades of Koramangala & Challaghatta Valley Water Treatment Plant for Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board

DALLAS, July 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) was selected to provide project management consultancy to Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to rehabilitate the Koramangala & Challaghatta (K&C) Valley Used Water Treatment Plant in Belur Nagasandra, India. The project will deliver critical upgrades to the 248 million litres per day (MLD) facility as part of an innovative water reuse and groundwater rejuvenation program. Upgrades include the addition of a new biosolids management facility to improve energy and nutrient recovery and ensure the treated water meets the stringent effluent discharge standards for beneficial reuse purposes. When the upgrades are complete, the plant will provide an additional level of treatment to the secondary treated discharge from the K&C Valley Used Water Treatment Plant. The treated water will be used to replenish the groundwater aquifers in the Kolar region of rural Bangalore. These replenished aquifers are critical to provide a safe and secure supplement to the irrigation supply for agricultural growers in the region. "Water scarcity is an ongoing challenge in India," said Jacobs People & Places Solutions Senior Vice President Global Operations Patrick Hill. "Innovative water reuse treatment technologies are key to reducing demand from agriculture and industry on limited fresh water supplies and achieving BWSSB's long-term vision for a circular water economy for the city of Bangalore." Jacobs will provide preliminary design, tendering, construction supervision, and testing and commissioning services to the project. BWSSB expect the rehabilitation works to be complete in 2022. Once complete, the facility will deliver

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Jacobs strengthens public engagement solutions with new virtual event space

DALLAS, June 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) is continuing its leadership in public engagement solutions, with the launch of a new, fully customized, online and interactive Jacobs' Virtual Event Space. As part of Jacobs' global suite of digital solutions, the Virtual Event Space can be tailored to deliver deep and meaningful engagement for any client, partner or project. Around the world, Jacobs develops and delivers public communication strategies and community involvement plans for clients' projects. Most often and until recently, these were facilitated via face-to-face public meetings. As projects look to continue important stakeholder engagement and avoid program delays, alternative solutions to face-to-face events are required. Jacobs' Virtual Event Space enables clients to provide their stakeholders with a rich, interactive, virtual experience that they can easily access straight from any computer or mobile device, without the need for virtual reality headsets. "With the recent restrictions on the way we interact with people, Jacobs specialists have enabled a way for our clients to accelerate and redefine how they connect and consult with stakeholders and end users in the future," said Jacobs Vice President and Global Digital Market Director Dr. Raja Kadiyala. "Leveraging our global digital solutions capability, we are challenging what's possible today and reinventing a new way forward – providing more accessible, more inclusive, more resilient and lower carbon impact engagement." From real time feedback and information gathering sessions, to exhibitions, to public consultations sharing plans for major infrastructure and community developments, this customized virtual event experience allows public

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Jacobs and Aurecon joint venture milestone supports sewage treatment planning for urban utilities

DALLAS, June 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J), in a joint venture with Aurecon, is delivering sewage treatment planning and design services to Urban Utilities in a three year program. Urban Utilities is a distributor-retailer responsible for delivering vital water and sewage services to households and businesses in South East Queensland, Australia. Urban Utilities manages approximately $3.76 billion (AU$5.4 billion) in assets, including 29 sewage treatment plants, and provides water and sewerage services to a population of 1.5 million. According to Urban Utilities, the project has just passed the first six-month milestone and has delivered market ready documentation for $51.7 million (AU$77 million) of infrastructure upgrades and deferred more than $13.4 million (AU$20 million) of capital investment, helping drive greater value for Urban Utilities customers. "Like many of our clients, Urban Utilities is responding to a complex mix of economic, environmental and social pressures," said Jacobs People & Places Solutions Senior Vice President of Operations Patrick Hill. "The state of Queensland has experienced sustained population growth above the national average and around 90% of this growth is concentrated in the urban areas of the South East. The global water expertise of our team will support Urban Utilities in effectively planning and delivering affordable, reliable, resilient and sustainable services for future generations as this growth continues." Jacobs and Aurecon formed a joint venture, "AJile," to deliver the planning and design services. The project team is leveraging its global experience working with biological treatment technologies and supporting renewable energy and waste-to-resource projects

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APWA recognizes Puyallup River Bridge F16A&B replacement - Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge project as a National Project of the Year

Image courtesy of Atkins Construction An important commercial arterial, the Puyallup River Bridge – renamed in May 2019 to the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge in a collaborative effort between the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and City of Tacoma - links Fife to Tacoma's industrial area and the Port of Tacoma. After 85 years of nearly issue-free service, the structure began to show its age. And, when the design for a replacement cable stay bridge proved financially unviable in 2013, the City of Tacoma had less than one year to complete several steps to protect the federal grants acquired to replace the bridge. From writing the design-build Request for Qualification and Proposal with draft documents under development by the Washington State Department of Transportation (to be used for the first time by a local jurisdiction under FHWA rules) to updating the National Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Document, there was no shortage of work to be done. Atkinson Construction with design partner Jacobs was selected as the best value design-build proposer with design of a 9-span continuous precast concrete girder bridge replacing F16 A&B and all of the F22 span. The design, which doubles the lane capability of the former bridge thereby enabling trucks to leave Port of Tacoma through the crossing, was challenged by the span length over the railroad mainlines and the clearance requirements of the existing and future track alignments. To stay under budget, the team devised a concrete girder design to span the 212-feet over six tracks and

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The protecting role of parks

As beautiful summer weather approaches, waterfront parks provide a great way to enjoy incredible views along with opportunities for passive and active recreation. Did you know waterfront parks also play an important role in protecting neighborhoods and public spaces prone to flooding? Parks can help reduce flood damage and/or flood risk while enhancing public spaces and making our waterfronts more resilient. With sea level rise a growing concern and an already-active hurricane season underway for 2020, we should pay respect to these peaceful and mighty assets. Look at parks in New York City – while each is unique in location, size and purpose – many are similar in their ability to mitigate flood impacts. In other words, parks are able to naturally safeguard places and people and alleviate what could otherwise cost millions of dollars of damage. Take for example the East Side Coastal Resiliency project, New York City’s first large-scale coastal resiliency and flood protection project that will be going into construction. “We’ve been working on ESCR since 2015 when our role began in the feasibility studies and conceptual design,” reports Jacobs People & Places Solutions Project Manager Maki Onodera. “From a resiliency and flood protection standpoint, this infrastructure is much needed for New York City as the impacts of climate change become more pronounced and we see more frequent and intense storms.” Aimed at mitigating future flood risks in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, while enhancing the environmental and economic viability of the Manhattan waterfront, the ESCR is

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Jacobs ranked No. 1 on ENR's Top 500 Design Firms list for third consecutive year

Engineering News-Record has ranked Jacobs No. 1 in its list of Top 500 Design Firms. Widely considered the industry benchmark, the annual list ranks both publicly and privately held U.S. companies, based on revenue for design-specific services performed in the previous year. Jacobs has held a top five position in the Top 500 list since ENR’s rankings began in 2003, and for a third consecutive year, we’re excited to retain the top spot. “Over the last two years Jacobs has been transformed by strategic acquisitions and divestitures, along with the launch of our new brand – and through it all, we continue to build a strong inclusive culture where people are inspired to innovate new solutions for ourselves and our clients,” said Chair and CEO Steve Demetriou. “ENR’s recognition of Jacobs speaks to our diverse team of visionaries, thinkers and doers that live our values every day and continue challenging today to reinvent tomorrow.” As highlighted in our 2019 Integrated Annual Report, we aim higher and don’t settle — always looking beyond to raise the bar and deliver with excellence. Examples of ideas turned into bold, intelligent solutions for a more connected, sustainable tomorrow include: Operational Advancement: It is one thing to dream up new solutions. At Jacobs, we also deliver them. As Architect/Engineer of Record for the Denver International Airport Concourse B and C East expansions, Jacobs designed roughly 600,000 square feet of the East side concourse expansions that will make room for 28 new aircraft gates and approximately 137,000 square

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Jacobs selected to help AstraZeneca retrofit Ohio manufacturing facility

Jacobs was selected to provide engineering, procurement, construction management and commissioning / qualification / validation (EPCMCQV) to retrofit AstraZeneca’s West Chester, Ohio manufacturing facility to deliver a potential vaccine to fight COVID-19. Jacobs’ work includes upgrading an existing idle Fill Line to support formulation, vial filling, visual inspection and packaging of the COVID-19 vaccine at the earliest date possible in the fall of 2020. "We're eager to help AstraZeneca meet the challenge of providing a potential vaccine in record time," says Jacobs People & Places Solutions, Global Operations, Senior Vice President, Ken Gilmartin. "The world is anxiously waiting for a cure for the novel Coronavirus and we are committed to using our vaccine manufacturing capabilities and doing all we can to make AstraZeneca's ambition a reality."

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New, downloadable thought leadership paper: Toward a zero carbon future

Jacobs and Yarra Valley Water have partnered to deliver a thought leadership paper which asks ‘what if’ the growth of Australia’s hydrogen industry could be supported by co-located hydrogen production at wastewater treatment plants? Find out in our latest insights. The broad utilization of hydrogen has potential to play an important role in our drive toward a decarbonized, sustainable future. But in Australia, cost remains a major barrier to adoption. Building on the suggestions made in our original thought leadership paper in 2019, our latest release uses Yarra Valley Water’s Aurora wastewater treatment plant as a case study to explore the relationship between both outputs from electrolysis - hydrogen and pure oxygen. Specifically, the high-level analysis explores whether using oxygen in wastewater treatment processes could create enough savings for the wastewater treatment plant to effectively subsidize the cost of hydrogen and increase its commercial viability. “Together with Yarra Valley Water, our paper starts a conversation about a possible future role for water utilities in Australia’s hydrogen industry that supports both decarbonization and the commercial readiness of this emerging industry,” says Jacobs’ Senior Vice President, Global Operations Patrick Hill. The findings from the case study indicated that implementing a type of treatment technology that allows for the efficient use of pure oxygen at the Aurora wastewater treatment plant could deliver net capital and operating cost savings to Yarra Valley Water compared to other types of treatment options tested. At the same time, the guaranteed demand for oxygen at Aurora was instrumental

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Jacobs in new alliance to deliver water resilience for the East of England

DALLAS, June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) has been appointed to Anglian Water Services' new Strategic Pipelines Alliance (SPA) which will deliver new connective infrastructure across the East of England ensuring more than 600,000 of Anglian Water's six million customers continue to receive a resilient and safe water supply for generations to come. In the U.K., a reliable water supply is often taken for granted, yet water shortages caused by climate change and an increasing population are now a key risk while balancing the needs of the environment. Anglian Water is tackling this challenge now, head on, with a forward-thinking investment of $458 million (£365M) over the next five years to take 20 regionally significant projects from concept to operation. "We live in a connected world where communities and their infrastructure are only as strong as the weakest link," said Jacobs People and Places Solutions Europe, Middle East & Africa Senior Vice President and General Manager Donald Morrison. "Anglian Water appreciates this and their investment through the SPA will help to set up the East of England for prosperous growth and development well into the future." The alliance will build on the collaborative delivery experience of Anglian Water, Jacobs and the other partners (Farrans, Mott MacDonald Bentley and Costain) focusing on long-term, integrated thinking to deliver better outcomes for the customer. New technology like digital twins or replicas of actual systems, processes and assets will be used for synthetic data generation, prediction, optimization and scenario analysis, helping to drive

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Jacobs secures National Flood Risk Assessment 2 (NAFRA2) contract

DALLAS, May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:J) was selected by England's Environment Agency to design, develop and implement the National Flood Risk Assessment 2 (NaFRA2), a pioneering cloud computing system that will help create a step-change in the quality and scope of England's national flood risk information. Along with JBA Consulting and a small group of industry and academic experts, Jacobs will combine its industry-leading flood modelling experience with web technologies and cloud computing to develop a system that underpins national-scale flood analysis in England. The Environment Agency estimates the four-year contract value at $10 million (£8 million). "We believe this will be the world's first cloud-based, interactive national flood risk assessment system combining local and national flood modeling for rivers, sea and surface water," said Jacobs People & Places Solutions Senior Vice President and General Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa Donald Morrison. "Once operational it will enable the Environment Agency to manage flood risk in England more effectively and efficiently." NaFRA2 will be designed to store, process and manipulate input data, and manage the production of outputs. The project includes substantial national-scale flood modeling, spanning scenarios for different flood defense states, breaching, blockage and climate change. These will help the Environment Agency produce a comprehensive picture of risk and uncertainty, including core public national flood risk information and data to support flood incidents. "We are thinking and acting differently on this challenging and groundbreaking project," said Environment Agency National Director of Operations and Project Sponsor Steve Moore

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National Public Works Week: Jacobs helps cricket become a smash in Johns Creek

The 2020 National Public Works Week theme is The Rhythm of Public Works, which celebrates communities as a symphony of essential services, working together to create a great place to live. A key element of community satisfaction is learning how to adapt to changes within a city and its residents, something our Jacobs team in Johns Creek, Georgia, knows well. The City of Johns Creek has become the most diverse city in Georgia, home to numerous residents from Asia, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. And with the influx in people comes an influx of cultural influences and passions. These residents specifically have introduced a cultural enthusiasm for the sport of cricket. The sport has been around for hundreds of years, but only recently has gained in popularity in the states. To accommodate cricket enthusiasts, the Johns Creek Recreation and Parks Department, which is operated and managed by Jacobs, established a master plan to design and build one turf cricket pitch and three batting cages at Shakerag Park. The pitch will open up to residents this month, while the batting cages opened in June 2019 with a great reception from the community. “The cricket facilities in Johns Creek are allowing the citizens to not only participate in the second biggest sport in the world, but also provide a platform for youth development and community engagement for a healthy lifestyle,” said community resident and cricket enthusiast, Shafiq Jadavji. Part of the master plan for what will be Johns Creek’s largest park

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Jacobs keeps up the rhythm of public works in cities nationwide

Amid this global health crisis, have you wondered what it would be like if you didn’t have clean water for drinking and washing your hands? Or what it would be like if roads and traffic signals near you hadn’t been maintained properly, making it more difficult to get to the grocery store or your doctor’s office? In communities where Jacobs performs public works services, these thoughts aren’t as worrisome. Our Operations Management and Facilities Services (OMFS) professionals have been working diligently to organize staff and resources, sustain operations and manage contingencies during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. And while the pandemic has presented challenges, staff has remained on the frontlines to keep their communities operational. “As we celebrate National Public Works Week, we recognize our staff’s commitment to supporting our client-partners, who rely on us day in and day out to ensure their communities continue to run efficiently,” says Jacobs Global Operations Management and Facilities Services Vice President Steve Meininger. “We remain committed to supporting our partners and are using this time to not only make changes to keep their communities running, but also increase satisfaction among their residents.” This year’s National Public Works Week (NPWW) theme is The Rhythm of Public Works, viewing a community as a symphony of essential services that work in concert to create a great place to live. Whether our public works teams are building and maintaining roads and bridges, removing snow, managing traffic routes or improving their local park, they keep the rhythm of