Jacobs to Develop Smart City Masterplans for Three Greenfield Industrial Developments in South India
Jacobs has been selected by National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Limited (NICDC) to deliver master planning and preliminary engineering design services for three greenfield industrial developments in South India. The projects, under the third phase of the NICDC's National Industrial Corridor Development Program, aim to reimagine industrial cities in India and create new global manufacturing and investment destinations with world-class road, rail, water, power and social infrastructure.
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Q&A: Talking with Michele Holland, Federal Civilian Agencies Portfolio Operations Director
Michele Holland, PE, PMP, is the Federal Civilian Agencies Portfolio Operations Director. A graduate of Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Structural Engineering, Michele began her career designing large infrastructure and facility projects in the Washington D.C. area before moving overseas to support bridge and infrastructure projects in Gurgaon, India and then on to deliver program management support in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Michele joined Jacobs in 2011 as a Project Manager in the Arlington, Virginia office. She has since moved to Raleigh, North Carolina where she is on a never-ending quest to find the best craft beer and BBQ in the state.
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Jacobs Wins New Air Force B-21 Aircraft Contract
Jacobs was awarded a new U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Kansas City District Architecture and Engineering (AE) contract to support the planning, design and construction of facilities and infrastructure in service of the Air Force's B-21 mission. The Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) supports AE requirements primarily at Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB), South Dakota, Dyess AFB, Texas, Whiteman AFB, Missouri, and other locations as the Air Force determines support for the B-21 program.
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Why Quality Must Be Our Priority
As the pandemic accelerates the industry’s digital revolution, the built environment must take the opportunity to improve the quality of its work.
In the latest online issue of RICS Construction Journal, Jacobs’ Surveying and Estates Lead in our Cities & Places U.K. team, Andrew Wood, discusses quality in the built environment, and the need to heed the lessons of the past and accelerate the digital revolution to reimagine service, embrace new technologies and set a new path forward. Initially published in the journal [member access], we reshare the article here, with thanks to RICS Construction Journal.
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