In an effort to better understand the spread of COVID-19, our Digital Solutions, Water and Operations Management and Facilities Services teams are launching a pilot program to monitor wastewater streams at locations where we operate plants.

As we celebrate Drinking Water Week, May 3 – 9, 2020, we’re highlighting how Jacobs is making this year’s theme, “It is there when you need it,” a reality through our projects and team of dreamers, makers and doers.

The Board of Directors of Jacobs has declared a quarterly cash dividend payable to shareholders in the amount of $0.19 per share of Jacobs common stock. This dividend will be paid on June 17, 2020, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 20, 2020.

Today Jacobs' subsidiary Simetrica-Jacobs and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) published a report looking at the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and wellbeing of people in the U.K. The report found "substantially worse" levels of wellbeing and psychological distress across the U.K. in April 2020 compared to the same period in 2019. Levels of all measures of wellbeing are at the lowest in the U.K. since records began in 2011 and many parts of the population are over the threshold for psychiatric morbidity. The costs of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing measures on mental health and wellbeing were calculated to have an indicative monetary value to the U.K. of £2.25 billion ($2.8bn) per day, equivalent to £43 ($53) per adult each day1. This is the net cost as both the positive and negative effects of COVID-19 and social distancing were included in the analysis.

This year’s Drinking Water Week theme – There when you need it – is especially fitting.

Did you know that Jacobs participates in the Hiring Our Heroes fellowship program for transitioning military and military spouses?

Samantha O'Farrell, a civil engineer in our Jacksonville, Florida office didn't let her lack of sewing prowess stop her from helping to positively impact her community.

Project Manager Gemma Goulding works on decommissioning programs at the Sellafield nuclear site. But last month she turned her organizational skills to a different problem.

Jacobs is pleased to announce that Major General Tim Byers has been promoted to lead the company's Federal & Environmental Solutions (F&ES) business, including support to U.S. government agencies and commercial clients responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.

In honor of Jacobs’ new Climate Action Plan launch, World Economic Forum Executive Director of the Mission Possible Platform Anthony Hobley discusses why leadership on climate change is more imminent than ever before and how Jacobs is leading the way.

Jacobs joined other CEOs and senior leaders of the industry, who are partners of the World Economic Forum, to lend our expertise and resources.

Jacobs, as part of CH2M Hill BWXT West Valley, LLC (CHBWV), a Jacobs-led joint venture, was awarded a contract extension from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) at the West Valley Demonstration Project.