Jacobs has reaffirmed its commitment to responding to the climate change emergency by offering its entire workforce the Climate Solutions Accelerator course, a 90-minute online course designed to educate participants on climate change and the actions that can mitigate its impact before it is too late.

Tammy Harrison-Round works in our Jacobs’ Quantity Surveying team, which is part of our overarching Major Programs and Projects Group (MPPG). Working with colleagues across the U.K. and India, her team works with local and global clients to provide commercial, contractual and procurement advice throughout their entire project. They work across many sectors such as buildings, highways, rail, water, defense and security.

For this feature, we talked with Jacobs Buildings Project Coordinator Arlien Bathan-Gusi about career, the STEAM heroes who inspire her and how she’s taking her own advice for young professionals.

Jackie Roe is an experienced Program Director who has spent more than half her life managing some of the world’s most complex, time-sensitive and publicly sensitive infrastructure projects, including the Thames Tideway Tunnel Project, Rio 2016 Olympics and London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. She has also worked in Australia supporting some of our Australian clients deliver their large-scale infrastructure projects, and is currently working on a major clean energy program in the U.K.

With nearly 15 years of experience under her belt, Megan has developed emergency response and business continuity plans, has led incident command system trainings, tabletop and functional exercises for private, public and government sectors and has supported several public emergency activations for wildfire and pandemic disaster response efforts.

For this feature, we talked with Jacobs’ Junior Geoscientist Febriany Diaz Alffi about career, the STEAM heroes who inspire her and how she uses art to keep creative and productive.

Jacobs leads the global professional services sector – powered by our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) services hubs combining knowledge, skillset and technical expertise of a robust talent of talent network worldwide. Our GID services enhances our ability to deliver maximum value, multi-office execution and innovative solutions to our international clients more efficiently across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Jacobs Director of Health Infrastructure Matthew Holmes and physician and healthcare architect Diana Anderson will present at a virtual session of the European Health Care Design Conference in England June 17, 2021.

In this Q&A, we connect with Vice President, Executive Program Director, Europe Suzanne McCormack, to talk about what inspires her and her career working on some of the most exciting programs in the world.

Jacobs’ global leaders and industry-leading experts will be sharing their perspectives and insights on solutions and innovations spanning the urban water cycle at Singapore International Water Week 2021 (SIWW2021).

There is little doubt that infrastructure projects are seen as a way out of the current economic situation by many governments worldwide, with huge investment planned in new tunnels, railways, utilities and other infrastructure. But will this building frenzy create yet more opportunities for cyber crime to disrupt our way of life?

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.