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Feb 20, 2024
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Jacobs recently joined the Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment Program (SE 2050), an industry group aiming to reduce embodied carbon across all structural projects.
SE 2050 was developed by the Structural Engineering Institute to transform the structural engineering industry. Its mission is to provide the industry with the resources and guidance to educate, reduce, and eventually eliminate embodied carbon, achieving net zero by 2050.
This program will allow Jacobs to contribute to industry-wide efforts to learn and share knowledge on embodied carbon and grow the skills of our teams. It will support our efforts to deliver ambitious and carbon-smart structural designs to our clients, and ultimately eliminate embodied carbon in our projects by 2050.
As a signatory firm each year we’ll be required to submit an annual Embodied Carbon Action Plan (ECAP) and share project data to a SE 2050 database available to other signatory firms so strategies can be shared and progress can be monitored.
Climate response at Jacobs
Joining the program aligns with our climate commitments detailed in our Climate Action Plan, including targeting every project as a climate response opportunity, achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain by 2040, and maintaining carbon neutrality status and 100% low-carbon electricity for our operations (which we achieved in 2020).
We also support our clients with climate response, one of the growth accelerators within our Boldly Moving Forward strategy. This aligns positive societal impact with long-term business growth, and delivering significant value for our clients through sustainable, integrated, end-to-end solutions.
We also guide clients on every step of their decarbonization journey. Across many sectors we use an interdisciplinary approach to design the solutions needed to achieve their decarbonization goals. From evaluating renewable energy generation portfolios, to storage solutions, decarbonization roadmaps, capital plans or program management support, we help organizations, governments and community with the challenge of transitioning from fossil fuels to low carbon energy sources.