Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today the opening of its Odessa, Texas office and central equipment yard, which significantly enhances the company’s ability to provide construction and maintenance services to new and existing clients in West Texas.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. recently completed Huntsman Pigments’ new €38 million iron sulfate plant at its titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment manufacturing facility in Scarlino, Italy. Huntsman celebrated the completion on July 1, 2014.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the Civil Engineering and Development Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to provide managing and operating services for the Public Works Regional Laboratory (PWRL) in Tai Po, Hong Kong. This contract replaces Jacobs’ previous contract that was awarded in 2011.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that in the last three months it has been selected for over 15 new Distributed Antennae Systems (DAS) contracts, demonstrating the continued expansion of the company’s telecommunications business.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. today announced that its board of directors approved a program to repurchase up to $500 million of the company's common stock over the next three years.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it was selected to receive the 2014 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award from the Defense Security Service (DSS). The award was given to Jacobs’ Oxnard, Calif. facility that supports the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it was awarded a contract from ExxonMobil Chemical Company to provide engineering, procurement and construction services as part of a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker project in ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas complex and associated premium product facilities in Mont Belvieu, Texas.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the Port Authority of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania to provide professional engineering design services for light rail transit systems.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today that it earned the #1 spot in several categories on the Building Design + Construction (BD+C) 2014 Giants Survey; which ranks the world’s top architecture, engineering and construction firms by revenue.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today it was awarded a Phase I contract for the conceptual design of an asteroid capture system for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). The ARM forms a critical part of NASA’s technology development plans for future human spaceflight operations and the overarching goal of a manned Mars mission.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. invites investors and other interested parties to listen to a live webcast of its discussion at the Jefferies 2014 Global Industrials Conference taking place in New York, NY.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2014 ended June 27, 2014.