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Explore the latest announcements, press coverage and company updates showing the solutions we’re creating with clients, the positive difference we’re making in our communities and the value we’re delivering to shareholders. 

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Jacobs to support fleet modernization across Canada

Jacobs has been awarded a contract to support VIA Rail’s Long Distance, Regional and Remote fleet renewal program, modernizing passenger rail service across Canada with new locomotives and passenger cars designed for long-term reliability, accessibility and improved rider experience.
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Jacobs advances major highway modernizations in California

Jacobs has been selected by the Orange County Transportation Authority to provide construction management services for two major highway improvement projects designed to enhance mobility and reduce congestion in Orange County, California.
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Jacobs awarded commercial space headquarters campus contract

Jacobs has been awarded the architecture and engineering phase one design contract by Axiom Space for the Assembly, Integration and Testing facility planned for the 400-acre Houston Spaceport in the heart of Space City at Ellington Airport. This new 100,000 sq ft facility will support Axiom Space's mission to provide access to low Earth orbit and assemble the first commercial international space station.

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Microgrids: A resilient option for tomorrow

Jacobs is working with clients from around the globe to ensure mission critical operations can withstand unexpected emergencies. Jacobs Principal Roger Copeland shares how in this article for jacobs.com.

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Webinar: Catch our insights on outsourcing for public-private partnerships

The pandemic and subsequent economic downturn have reduced budgets and resource pools for many local governments. Outsourcing and public-private partnerships provide an avenue for recovery, but planning and proper consideration are essential when deciding whether to outsource key services. In an upcoming webinar on December 14, sponsored by the International City/County Management Association, Jacobs Program Manager Jim Nichols will discuss the advantages and potential downsides of outsourced services and public-private partnerships.

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Jacobs wins UK accolade for supporting Carers

We’ve been certified as a Carer Confident Active Employer! Read how we’re building a positive, inclusive workplace for everyone – including the growing number of employees who are, or will become, carers.

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The future of Jacobs: Our extraordinary young talent

Building upon our core value of living inclusion, investing in our young talent from all communities was one of our priorities during our internship program. Read how in this new jacobs.com article, published ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3.

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Jacobs Mace supports the Expo 2020 Dubai opening

DALLAS, Nov. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jacobs Mace joint venture (JV) celebrates Expo 2020 Dubai as visitors discover 192 country pavilions and a host of signature thematic pavilions, thrilling entertainment and state-of-the-art innovative technologies. As the Official Program Delivery Management Provider for Expo 2020 Dubai, Jacobs Mace worked alongside the Expo team in managing the overall program delivery and masterplan of the infrastructure and public realm spaces for the event through to the site's transition to a people-centric smart city, District 2020. The JV assisted Expo in managing more than 40 individual projects that run 24/7, including design management, urban planning, procurement services, construction/project management and logistics, across the three Thematic Districts, public realm and the Al Wasl Plaza centerpiece. "We've helped drive the transformation of the site into a lasting urban legacy, that unites the world to innovate and create meaningful impact for future generations," said Jacobs Vice President Amer Battikhi. "The Jacobs Mace JV worked alongside Expo all the way, from our work managing the masterplan and delivering the arrivals plazas and public realm spaces to our monitoring role in the construction of the thematic pavilions. We worked with Expo to make sure the experience truly inspires visitors and helps them understand their role in creating a more connected, sustainable world." The Thematic Pavilions, Sustainability (Terra), Mobility (Alif) and Opportunity (Mission Impossible), are designed to inspire meaningful action from people to tackle some of the world's most critical challenges and embrace emerging opportunities posed by climate change

Jacobs Secures Place on England’s National Highways Scheme Delivery Framework
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Jacobs secures place on England’s National Highways Scheme Delivery Framework

Jacobs has been awarded a place on National Highways (formerly Highways England) Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) to design renewal and improvement schemes on England’s strategic road network, including preliminary design, detail design and site supervision services. The SDF is the start of a new way to keep England’s motorways and major roads in top condition and Jacobs will be leveraging our full digital and data analytics capabilities to transform how we deliver our design services, which will provide best in class cost and schedule and quality reliability and lead to an overall enhanced customer experience. National Highways has appointed Jacobs to three lots on the framework, the maximum possible to be awarded to any one supplier for design services. These lots include the South East Region, North East Region and Central Super Region of England. National Highways’ investment in the six-year framework is projected to be approximately $3.7 billion (£2.7bn) to maintain their strategic road network and keep England moving. "National Highways has created a transformative outcome-focused framework that puts sustainability and future needs at the heart of road network planning. Jacobs will be working closely with a range of small organizations and social groups to really embed sustainable social value and put National Highways’ vision into practice,” says Jacobs People & Places Solutions Senior Vice President Europe and Digital Strategies Donald Morrison. “At Jacobs we’re using data and technology to challenge how we work today, and in doing so improving the solutions we create to solve our client’s challenges