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.
Our three strategic accelerators — Climate Response, Consulting & Advisory and Data Solutions — open up significant high value growth opportunities with clients across Advanced Manufacturing, Cities & Places, Energy & Environment, Health & Life Sciences, Infrastructure, National Security and Space.
Advanced Manufacturing
Our differentiating capabilities in advanced manufacturing include Jacobs’ highly advanced design and engineering in the electrification ecosystem, data centers and semiconductor manufacturing — deployed through a global integrated delivery platform.
- We’ve completed 25 million square feet of EV manufacturing facilities and three of the largest battery plants in the world, for a total of 350 GwH.
- We’re partnering with some of the world’s largest technology and data center providers to address critical sustainability and carbon neutrality challenges and driving innovation with renewable power and water technologies.
- Alongside Western Digital, we’re working toward reducing energy, water, carbon and waste at its global manufacturing facilities and updating vulnerability assessments across the company’s portfolio with special emphasis on climate change.
Working with Intel Like Father, Like Daughter: A Q&A with Dave King and Ellie Wilson. This family pair share their parallel paths and how they led to working on Intel projects.
Cities & Places
We integrate data, technology, mobility and connectivity to improve economic and social equity, and overall resiliency of cities and communities, and combine domain expertise from strategic planning, architecture, design, engineering, natural sciences and the arts.
- We’ve continued providing program and master planning leadership, technical design and planning advisory services for the $7 billion North London sustainable mixed-use development, Meridian Water, meeting the U.K.’s highest health and building standards and targeting net-zero carbon by 2030.
- We’re providing site master planning and sustainability solutions for a new Energy Campus in Rheinland, Germany, welcoming third-party partners and investors to build the value chains of the future and supporting the transition of Shell in Germany to a net-zero emissions company.
- We’re providing construction management and design support services for New Zealand’s Central Interceptor, the supersized wastewater tunnel, which will play a crucial role in ensuring cleaner waterways in central Auckland and future-proof the wastewater infrastructure for the city’s growing population.
- As program manager for the Port of San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program, we’re leading the preservation and fortification of the 100-year-old Embarcadero Seawall for sea level rise adaptation, flood protection and earthquake resilience.
It’s a decade since the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games and our team share what working on the Games meant for major projects of the future and the Games legacy.
Energy & Environment
As the world’s largest environmental consulting firm — and backed by decades of cross-market delivery in natural sciences and engineering — Jacobs is at the forefront of solving the planet’s most critical environmental challenges from impact assessment and natural systems modeling to remediation and compliance.
- As the program management partner for Pacific Gas and Electric’s Electric Undergrounding Program, the largest program of its kind in the U.S., we’re helping bring 10,000 miles of power lines underground to mitigate wildfires in and near high fire-threat areas and respond to California’s evolving climate challenges.
- We supported Expo 2020 Dubai with the planning, management and achievement of one of the most sustainable global events to date, setting a high bar for accurate greenhouse gas accounting of mitigation measures, including energy efficient structures, low carbon materials and substantial waste diversion.
- Jacobs is part of a consortium chosen by the Michigan Department of Transportation and led by Electreon to develop and implement an inductive vehicle charging pilot — the first of its kind in the U.S. — a critical step toward reducing global transportation carbon emissions.
- Drawing on our global hydrogen capability, we conducted a feasibility study for renewable energy company RWE to investigate the production and supply of green hydrogen in South Wales, U.K. The green hydrogen project has the potential to grow to several gigawatts in scale and could be linked to floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea.
Cleaning up Scotland’s most radioactive beach: Jacobs’ radiation protection specialists are supplying the crucial know-how for a clean-up operation on the beach of Dalgety Bay, near Dunfermline.
Infrastructure
We’re capitalizing on our advanced design, engineering, program management, urban and transportation planning, scientific and technology services.
- The New York City Department of Environmental Protection selected us to study the feasibility of consolidating four aging wastewater resource recovery facilities into a new state-of-the-art facility on New York’s Rikers Island. Closing the Rikers complex permanently and redeveloping the 413-acre island would offer an opportunity for renewal and transformation within the surrounding communities, while freeing up valuable land along the East River. Jacobs’ approach to the study incorporates a OneWater perspective to infrastructure planning that includes challenging urban water management to create opportunities for equitable and inclusive economic development.
- As technical advisor to Brisbane City Council, we’re guiding Brisbane Metro toward solutions for their congestion issues, and showcasing a new, improved bus system and cutting-edge, green transit solutions, including new battery electric, bi-articulated vehicles (the first of their kind in Australia) that have zero tailpipe emissions.
- In this podcast, former Crossrail Ltd CEO, Mark Wild, joins Jacobs to discuss learnings from and benefits of the development of London’s new Elizabeth line. The improved transport links will help in transforming the areas through which it runs – driving development, attracting investment and jobs, and acting as a catalyst for regeneration.
Supporting delivery of the Elizabeth line, the most significant addition to London’s transport network in a generation.
Health & Life Sciences
Jacobs’ deep subject matter expertise across diverse scientific, infrastructure, environmental and digital domains in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, health governance, health infrastructure and operations advisory provides market differentiation and distinct competitive advantage.
- Johns Hopkins Medicine selected us to provide project management services for the redevelopment of laboratory space on its medical campus in Baltimore, Maryland. The new project will provide innovative spaces for wet and computational laboratories, as well as collaborative spaces for investigators, clinicians and students.
- In Thailand, we’re providing engineering design to NatureWorks for a new biopolymer production plant for the largest supplier of polylactic acid, a low-carbon bioplastic derived from renewable, agricultural resources like corn or sugarcane, and used in a range of consumer goods.
- Working alongside NHS Scotland, we’re drafting individual Net-Zero Carbon Roadmaps for 12 NHS Scotland Health Boards, supporting reduction of operational greenhouse gas emissions across a range of areas such as energy efficiency, heat decarbonization, power generation, waste and transport to meet a “net-zero” target on or before 2040.
We connected with Jacobs Director of Health Analytics Eric Shen to talk about helping clients and project managers use data-driven methodologies to improve project planning and achieve long-term performance results. Read more →
National Security
Encompasses solutions for public and private sector institutions, systems and programs that serve to create, secure and defend national interests and infrastructure against foreign and domestic threats across multiple domains.
- Jacobs scored our third consecutive architecture and engineering support services contract to continue supporting the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations by providing program-level process- and procedure-improvement support, existing facilities surveys and analyses, and other project-specific support.
Ahead of her talk at the World Biodiversity Summit in New York City as part of Climate Week NYC, we caught up with Jacobs Resilient + Sustainability Business Advisory Director Hollie Schmidt to discuss her thoughts on biodiversity, the challenges and opportunities we face in developing a sustainable future and her work on resilient projects across our portfolio like the Tyndall Air Force Base restoration and coastal resilience program. Read more →
- We made a strategic investment in HawkEye 360, the industry leader in radio frequency geoanalytics, providing commercially available precise mapping of global RF emissions. With our investment, we’re enhancing our digital intelligence suite with spectrum-based geoanalytics technologies, which will play an increasingly important role in delivering solutions to address critical challenges for national security, civilian infrastructure, maritime and energy clients around the world.
- Our design of the new 77,110 square foot Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Administration Building at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), New Mexico received the 2022 Merit Award in the Unbuilt Category from the Society of American Military Engineers at their bi-annual Design Awards. Our award winning design applies a “modern” working environment, allowing for maximum daylight in offices and work locations while keeping spaces secure.
Space
Jacobs delivers high-end solutions for remote sensing and earth observation, intelligence gathering, communications and navigation and space-enabled science and exploration through its decades of experience and capabilities in scientific, engineering and technology innovation.
- At NASA, we’re providing engineering and scientific products and technical services at NASA Johnson Space Center — including technology development, planetary missions and physical science research, astromaterial curation, and laboratory/facility operation and maintenance aimed at supporting the future of human space exploration.
- Axiom Space awarded us the architecture and engineering phase one design contract for its new 100,000 square foot Assembly, Integration and Testing facility to support its mission to provide access to low Earth orbit and assemble the first commercial international space station — which will provide a central hub for research to support microgravity experiments, manufacturing and commerce in low Earth orbit missions.
- Orbex, an orbital launch services company serving the needs of the small satellite industry, is working towards launching its Prime rocket from Sutherland Spaceport near Tongue in the northern Highlands of Scotland. An investor in Orbex, we’re leading the construction of the spaceport, and will provide spaceport operations support, operations consultancy and engineering services.
- Across multiple NASA Centers, contracts and programs, we’re providing innovative solutions and technologies to support NASA in their quest to explore deep space with the Artemis program. Named after the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the moon in Greek mythology, NASA’s Artemis missions aim to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon and establish sustainable exploration in preparation for missions to Mars.
We went behind-the scenes on the National Air and Space Museum's One World Connected exhibit, sponsored by Jacobs. The exhibit tells the story of how flight fostered two momentous changes in everyday life: the ease in making connections across vast distances and a new perspective of Earth as humanity’s home. We collated stories from Jacobs that highlight the connections and digital solutions we are making around the world. Read more →
Making Artemis a reality: explore NASA’s deep space human exploration program which aims to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon and establish sustainable exploration in preparation for missions to Mars.
The projects Jordyn-Marie Dudley and her co-workers at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) contribute to are helping to define what we know about the planets in our solar system, and directly influence and support current and future space exploration. Get to know Jordyn-Marie and how she got to where she is today in this Q&A. Read more →