Having recently “crossed the ditch” to lead our growing health team in New Zealand, we caught up with Jacobs Principal Health Architect Jorge Anaya to find out what’s keeping him busy these days in this latest Q&A.

Climate change has intensified flood frequency and risk, and our urban areas — including our major cities — are under threat. TEAM2100 is a pioneering flood defense program that harnesses the latest talent and technology in an integrated delivery team, but its success relies on seamless stakeholder engagement and communication. Claudia Beer-Davies shares her insights in driving both.

After almost 50 years’ experience in engineering, maintenance and project management, Mark Hope is giving back to the next generation of Jacobs managers by sharing his career and life lessons.

Jacobs Senior Project Manager John Gullick has supported several major programs during his time at Jacobs, including the Thames Tideway Tunnel. In this article, he explains how managing people is just as important as managing projects, and that facilitating internal moves for employees is key to retaining the best talent.

Pivotal major programs such as TEAM2100 offer the chance to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. However, while this potential is unmatched, so is the scale of the problem. To conquer this, a potent combination of talent, technology and track record is required, along with the highest level of stakeholder collaboration. Claire Bishop shares her insights into raising — and maintaining — this high-level, outcome-led approach.

Systems Engineer Marco Meloni is supporting the Australian Department of Defence as the Chief Engineer of Air Defence Systems (ADS) Branch, where he leads a high-performing engineering team working across a range of critical projects.

As our interns make their way back to campus, what better time than now to commemorate our amazing summer together! Our intern champions and mentors recognize that interns learn best when they work on projects and collaborate with team members directly. At Jacobs, interns engage with real-life situations and fully immerse themselves in transformative work.

A member of Jacobs’ Environmental, Health, & Safety Information Management (EHS IM) team, Shawn Makarsky serves as the Solutions Architect & Intelex Community of Excellence (CoE) Lead. In his role, he is responsible for focusing on Jacobs’ Intelex practice, one of the enterprise software platforms with which we have a long-standing working partnership, in the form of configuring, troubleshooting and maintaining various applications that we have developed for our clients.

Every site within the National Park Service is one-of-kind, and we sat down with Portfolio Director and National Park Service Program Manager Michele Holland to discuss how we can all find our park.

For this feature, we caught up with our Senior Aviation Planner in the Middle East Lawrence Melkowski to discuss the factors that influence planning, designing and developing airport facilities and services in the Middle East and how we can effectively balance economic viability with sustainable, technology-driven and environmentally-responsible practices in aviation.

One of our Section Leads for Environmental Planning, Permitting and Environment, Health and Safety Solutions unpacks how we’re helping solve complex environmental challenges with smart, sustainable solutions.

Kayla Brown grew up in southwest Washington, U.S., immersing herself in the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest. Today she plays a critical role in providing high-quality water for residents in Vancouver, Washington, and brainstorming innovative sustainable solutions that leave a more sustainable footprint for the city, the wastewater treatment plant and the community.