Drone technology is constantly evolving and achieving countless business benefits, including bringing an estimated additional $82 billion and a 100,000 job boost to the U.S. economy by 2025. What if we showed you how drones took flight to guide Jacobs and the Port of Virginia's construction progress on a major expansion to double capacity?

Jacobs and AECOM have been awarded a contract by Transport Scotland to lead its second Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2). The STPR2 is a strategic review which will provide recommendations to Scottish Ministers on future transport investment in Scotland focused on themes of economic prosperity, equality, health and wellbeing and climate action.

In an increasingly digitized world, industrial systems that were once analog, manual and isolated are now digital, smart and connected. What if we showed you how Jacobs and an international manufacturing company leveraged the power of digitization to automate operations processes to drive costs down and realize a vision of a connected enterprise with the Jacobs ion platform?

Jacobs and King County Wastewater Treatment Division received the Envision Platinum designation for the new $250 million Georgetown Wet Weather Treatment Station (WWTS), underscoring its positive social, economic and environmental benefits for the community. The Jacobs-led consultant team worked alongside King County to develop a sustainable and resilient treatment station with conveyance and outfall structure to treat combined sewer overflows prior to discharge into the Lower Duwamish Waterway – keeping an estimated 95 percent of untreated overflows from entering local waterways.

Jacobs has been ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine's 2019 World's Most Admired Companies list in the engineering and construction category. The annual survey, conducted by Fortune and Korn Ferry, is given to top executives, directors and financial analysts for identifying companies with the strongest reputations within and across industries. Jacobs previously ranked No. 5 among companies in the engineering and construction industry in 2018.

Jacobs has been selected by the Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Authority (DCA) for engineering design management (EDM) services related to the California WaterFix program. Estimated at $17 billion in 2017, WaterFix is California's largest water conveyance project, designed to bolster the reliability of the state's water supplies, while protecting and enhancing the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary, a vital environmental asset.

Independent research firm Verdantix scored Jacobs the highest among consultants evaluated for its digital vision and strategy.

The Jacobs Board of Directors has approved a $1 billion incremental share repurchase authorization and a 13 percent increase to its quarterly dividend rate.

Jacobs plans to release its fiscal first quarter 2019 earnings results on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, prior to market open and plans to host a conference call at 10 a.m. ET, during which management will make a brief presentation focusing on the company's results and operating trends.

Jacobs completed in-situ thermal treatment in Area 1 of the Velsicol Superfund Site in November, removing nearly 60,000 pounds of contaminants from the one-acre treatment zone in St. Louis, Michigan.

Over the past four months, Jacobs has partnered with Resilient Melbourne to deliver a series of three events focused on how we can utilize emerging technologies to help Melbourne “Survive, Adapt and Thrive.” The aim of the series was to explore global learnings in a local context, and to bring together stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to advance conversations that matter across topics that are critical to the resilience of Melbourne.

With a global shift to clean energy growth, is hydrogen part of the decarbonizing solution? In this article we explore what’s driving the need for change and some of the work underway to test the vision of a future with hydrogen.