We challenge the accepted
We know that to create a better future, we must ask the difficult questions. We always stay curious and are not afraid to try new things.
Beyond If℠ — our program for instilling and sustaining our innovation culture — showcases the best of who we are as innovators, creators and problem solvers. During FY21, we focused on tools, infrastructure and processes to facilitate innovation across the business:
We advanced the Beyond If Accelerator, our program to develop innovative solutions and create go to market plans in response to top client challenges including resilience, assets and infrastructure, mobility, water and mission delivery.
We reimagined the impact of our Innovation Centers, taking the opportunity to rethink how to bring cutting-edge technology into our practitioners’ hands to build and test prototypes. With flexible work continuing, we’ll explore how to work in a hybrid virtual-physical environment, taking into account key technology such as applied geospatial science, cybersecurity, automated design, internet of things and predictive data analytics.
Our “Innovation Enablement” facilitators delivered virtual, interactive ‘Innovation as a Service’ workshops globally to help teams reframe problems; ideate, assess and prioritize ideas; generate business models; and incubate and scale new solutions. These sessions, run both with and for clients, support development of ideas into marketable and revenue-generating solutions.
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Driving value through innovation
We fostered more than 40 ideas as part of our Beyond If Emerging Ideas program, which progresses ideas from incubation to development and scaling. Some of this year’s ideas included digital tools for our clients; ideation sessions to discover new services in social equity, water, energy, and transportation; analysis on power storage to meet U.K. net-zero energy goals; and so much more.
We sought to help local authorities develop sustainable transport planning by testing Velocity, a new intelligent digital platform enabling users to simplify and visualize cycling and walking plans – quickly, confidently and efficiently. Read more →
Carbon First evaluates carbon at the early project stages to put carbon at the heart of the decision-making process. From simple input information, we develop a representation of the program’s whole life carbon impacts, providing robust optioneering capability across each life cycle stage at the click of a button.
With Climate Risk Manager, clients can understand the immediate and long-term impacts of climate change at asset and portfolio level, anywhere in the world. Our cloud-based platform brings together global climate data and location intelligence, providing visual risk assessments, so clients can make faster and more accurate decisions on where to invest limited resources and guard against climate risks. Read more →
Along with ehsAI, a next wave technology company, we’re integrating innovative artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning into our EHS Information Management offering to greatly reduce compliance costs and risk for our industrial, commercial and government sector clients globally. Read more →
As a Managed Security Service Partner (MSSP) with IronNet, the leading provider of network detection and response (NDR) and collective defense, we’re working to develop an end-to-end solution designed to detect and prevent damaging and difficult-to-detect cyberattacks that continue to plague organizations across public and private sectors. Read more →
The launch of our Mango One satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard the Space X Falcon 9 Transporter One mission, marked a new era in advanced, affordable space radar payloads. Read more →
In Slovakia, we’re taking part in a pioneering project to dismantle a Soviet-designed nuclear power plant. Read more →
In response to increasing worldwide needs and client demands for greater positive development impacts, we created a unique collaboration with Biomimicry 3.8 (B3.8) to offer Positive Performance, an assessment and innovation methodology created by B3.8 to help corporate clients develop and integrate regenerative best practices, thereby improving the health and wellbeing of ecosystems and the communities who depend on them. Read more →
We transformed the home-to school travel experience for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) children and young people with our new Travel Service Optimization service — helping to advance social inclusion, while also supporting broader environmental and economic benefits. Read more →
We also enhanced Flood Modeller, our industry-leading flood modeling software which allows clients to seamlessly model rivers, floodplains and urban drainage systems — to better understand flood risk and develop optimal solutions to manage the impacts of climate change. Read more →
We manage every aspect of stakeholder engagement and public communication strategies for clients’ projects and programs worldwide. And we use our Virtual Event Space to help our clients accelerate and redefine how they connect and consult with stakeholders and keep their projects and communications strategies on track. Read more →
Providing a fully integrated approach to fleet energy management and service planning, our Fleet Max tools evaluate all aspects of fleet electrification power and service needs, providing both a high-level view of facilities and charger power needs in addition to a detailed evaluation of blocks and routes.
With Echo, inspectors and field representatives utilize a single, true mobile application to capture project data and photos, with or without internet or cellular connectivity. Online maps and query tools leverage Echo's searchable geodatabase to provide unlimited access to custom reports, raw data and project images. Online administration tools put project teams in charge of their data. Watch the video →
Evolving alongside the needs of our clients, Track Record Facilities is a web-based building compliance management platform which enables our clients to digitize their workflows on one centralized and streamlined platform and deliver full building compliance and condition assessment with evidence audit trails, all at lower cost and risk. Watch the video →
Redefining what’s possible
Through knowledge and imagination, we’re reinventing the way we solve problems and shaping the next generation with pioneering solutions. Our Reimagined Perspectives publication stimulates discussion and shares thought-provoking insights from our thought leaders, who also think ahead to what our next challenges might be.
Ideating for tomorrow
The launch of our Mango One satellite marked a new era in advanced, affordable space radar payloads. Image credit: NASA
We teamed with Biomimicry 3.8 to deliver sustainable designs with nature in mind. In response to increasing worldwide needs and client demands for greater positive development impacts, Jacobs has created a unique collaboration with B3.8 to offer Positive Performance, an assessment and innovation methodology created by B3.8.
Through our Net Zero Lab program, we partner with clients to create smart, tangible solutions and outline activities that make their net zero commitments a reality.
Beyond Carbon: A holistic approach to net zero cities explores a more holistic, programmatic approach to decarbonization and investing in local carbon reduction and removal projects could help cities accelerate their transition to net zero and deliver co-benefits that address other challenges.
