We aim higher
We do not settle — always looking beyond to raise the bar and deliver with excellence. We are committed to our clients by bringing innovative solutions that lead to profitable growth and shared success.
In the next few pages, we share examples of how our solutions are creating and influencing how we live today as well as into tomorrow.
Resilient environments
The only certainty about the future is uncertainty. We know resilience is an attribute of a smarter planet, and requires planning and adapting ahead of potential threats like hurricanes, crumbling bridges and the COVID-19 pandemic. We help our clients survive, recover, adapt and thrive through change, no matter what adversities they experience.
- As part of a public-private-partnership with the Environment Agency and BAM Nuttall, we celebrated the completion of the Broadland Flood Alleviation Project, a unique 20-year scheme to improve and maintain 149 miles of flood defenses within the Norfolk Broads, one of Europe’s most important wetland areas.
- Together with the U.S. Department of Energy on its $6.4 billion Idaho Cleanup Project, we’re using our technology-driven solutions to reduce the environmental legacy of the Cold War, support high-quality jobs in the region and protect the Snake River Plain Aquifer, a critical element of Idaho’s agricultural industry.
- We’re collaborating with The Nature Conservancy on the Pensacola East Bay Oyster Habitat Restoration Project to restore oyster reefs along the U.S. Gulf Coast, recently placing 33 oyster reefs along the Santa Rosa County shoreline that will benefit the oyster fishery, wildlife, water quality and nearshore habitats.
- Jacobs is bringing its global expertise of drafting carbon codes and designing nature-based solutions that restore coastal ecosystems to the partnership developing and trialing the U.K. carbon code for saltmarshes – paving the way for significant investment in restoring the U.K.’s saltmarshes, which will help mitigate climate change, support biodiversity and reduce flood risk.
Scientific discovery
Big challenges create brighter opportunities. Whether we’re exploring the mysteries of the universe or digging in to solve the issues we face in our environment and communities, we’re proud of what we do, and the discoveries we make — together.
- From technical consultancy and engineering design, to infrastructure management services and operations and maintenance, we’re providing an extensive portfolio of end-to-end solutions for offshore wind power development efforts — like Germany’s SuedLink Program — to help meet the increasing global demand for clean energy in a cost-effective way.
SuedLink
We’re providing an integrated delivery partner approach to program and contract management, planning and approvals, technical and other services.
- Our environmental scientists are advancing understanding and management of harmful vapors in buildings, publishing three peer-reviewed papers to improve the mathematical understanding of vapor intrusion and the ability to manage it cost effectively, helping mitigate potential health risks from long-term exposure to noxious vapors.
- We’re contributing our civil engineering and advanced manufacturing skills and capabilities as part of a consortium to develop a Generation III+ compact nuclear power station. The compact power station – also called a small modular reactor – will bolster efforts to tackle climate change and could potentially create 40,000 jobs, reinvigorate a vital part of the U.K.’s advanced manufacturing base and generate hundreds of billions of pounds in export revenues.
- NASA’s Perseverance rover, the centerpiece of Mars 2020 mission, touched down inside the red planet's Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021 kicking off a new era of exploration on Mars. Across multiple NASA Space Centers, contracts and programs, Jacobs partners with NASA to support the rover, delivering innovative technologies that lead to horizon-expanding scientific discoveries.
- With support spanning multiple NASA centers, we provided integrated solutions and superior technical support to help solve the most complex and hazardous challenges of development, test and launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest, most powerful and most complex space telescope ever built.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Working with multiple NASA centers, we provided integrated solutions and technical support to help develop, test and launch the world’s largest, most powerful and most complex space telescope. Image credit: NASA
Thriving cities
Prosperous communities. Healthy cities. A brighter future. We live and play in the places where we work, so we’re personally invested in the impact, outcomes and promise we deliver.
- Bringing much-needed aviation capacity to growing Delhi, India, we’re serving as program manager for the new Delhi Noida International Airport, helping boost tourism, create jobs and support economic development in the region.
- We led the transformation of a 438-hectare site into a lasting urban legacy, now hosting Expo 2020 Dubai — the largest event ever held in the Arab world — as a joint venture with Mace. As part of the Expo 2020 Dubai partner family, we’re proud to participate and contribute to the global dialogue happening now alongside 192 countries, commercial partners, international organizations and civil society stakeholders.
Expo 2020 Dubai
Providing consulting and program management expertise, we supported the transformation of a 438-hectare site into a lasting urban legacy. Image credit: Expo 2020 Dubai
- We joined forces with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and the Curiosity Lab, a 5G-enabled autonomous vehicle and smart living laboratory, to develop an immersive and advanced smart city program equipped with end-to-end smart solutions at Peachtree Corners, Georgia.
- In Abu Dhabi, we’re managing development of a first-of-its-kind wastewater laboratory that will use real-time information to assess the prevalence of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and other health conditions like diabetes and cancer; monitor human health; and prevent the spread of disease.
- For New South Wales Health Infrastructure, we’re designing the third stage of redevelopment at St. George Hospital and Community Health Services campus in Sydney — which will provide improved capacity and capability to treat a growing and aging multicultural population managing chronic and complex diseases, and reduce the length of hospital stays.
- We’re bringing New Zealand’s largest-ever wastewater project, Central Interceptor, to life. The supersized wastewater tunnel will play a crucial role in ensuring cleaner waterways for central Auckland, New Zealand.
Abu Dhabi Wastewater Laboratory
We’re leveraging previous experience in wastewater-based epidemiology at treatment plants to help deliver this project.
Mission-critical outcomes
Too valuable to be left to chance, people, property and data require advanced approaches against the changing threats of today. Whether in or outside networks, in the air or on the ground, we work with defense, intelligence, law enforcement and communities to protect what’s important.
- Focused on cyber, digital services and modern software engineering in support of national security, we’re helping the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency meet the demands of today’s digital evolution, supporting geospatial intelligence efforts for accessing and delivering digital intelligence and collection automation.
- Our work on the Coastal Resilience Program at the Tyndall Air Force Base received the International Excellence Award from England’s Environment Agency Flood & Coast Excellence Awards, recognizing our efforts to create a resilient, sustainable and smart Installation of the Future at the nexus of mission assurance, cost efficiency and social and environmental sustainability.
- We marked a critical step in preparation for NASA’s Artemis mission, as we processed the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage – the final piece of Artemis I flight hardware – at Kennedy Space Center. The SLS rocket will pave the way for future Artemis missions with astronauts when it sends an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test flight around the moon and back to Earth in 2022.
- We’ve delivered more than 100 projects as the sole-source design and field support partner on the China Lake Earthquake Recovery Program, including moving 18 new projects into the construction phase in July alone.
Tyndall Air Force Base
We’re helping Tyndall AFB explore pilot projects that use nature-based solutions to reduce coastal flood risks while creating important social and environmental benefits.
Cutting-edge manufacturing
Now more than ever, the world depends on the fast-paced, trustworthy solutions delivered by complex technology — whether clinical trials or next-generations systems. From research and design to delivery and management, we reimagine better and help clients deliver the promise of more.
- Helping bring lower cost versions of generic drugs to market, we’re providing facility design from concept through construction assistance for Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, PBC’s new, 22,000-square-foot sterile fill-finish facility in Dallas, Texas. This new facility will be registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow ultimate flexibility for rapid response to drug shortages, and will support the formulation, filling and packaging of sterile medicines.
- We’re developing and delivering first-of-its-kind test rig, CHIMERA, to test nuclear fusion components in realistic conditions. In the final stages of design now, we’ll continue on the path to build and commission the rig in 2022.
- By making fabrication facilities engineering more cost effective, reliable and repeatable, Jacobs is tackling the semiconductor shortage and supporting Intel’s goals to increase domestic chipmaking capacity, end the semiconductor shortage, meet global demand and create a more balanced, resilient global supply chain.
Operational advancement
Anyone can come up with ideas, it’s up to true visionaries to bring them to fruition. We don’t just ideate, we deliver — creating and implementing technology-forward solutions that connect us all with ways to work smarter and live better.
- As the race to deliver 5G wireless networks presses on, we’re working with clients and cities to safeguard resilience in future 5G networks and unlocking its high-speed, low-latency and secure network standard possibilities.
- Building on our data centers legacy, we introduced our new design concept for Cloud Condos, a plug-and-play concept that brings together Hyperscale and Colocation data center design to offer flexibility and scalability while maximizing speed to market.
- Helping Mount Isa City Council in northwest Queensland realize its smart water management vision, we’re facilitating the implementation of its smart water meter program, which will collect and report water consumption data, enabling customers to better manage their water usage and the council to identify leaks on customers’ properties and in its water network, delivering increased water savings for the community.
- Advancing technological innovation for fusion energy, we’re designing and delivering the First Plasma Radiological Environmental Monitoring System (REMS) for ITER, the world’s largest fusion energy experiment. This key safety system will provide critical protection for workers and the environment against ionizing radiation by monitoring radiological activity when operations begin.
Colocation for hyperscale data centers
Jacobs’ modular design is intended to be flexible and highly configurable, depending on the market and particular client needs.
Q&A with...
Throughout the year, across jacobs.com and our social media, we’ve featured some of our talented team of experts and visionaries. Here we share a selection of their stories and how they are continually challenging today to reinvent tomorrow. Visit our Newsroom to meet more of #OurJacobs team.
