Eight years after category 5 hurricanes Irma and Maria struck the US Virgin Islands in August and September 2017, Jacobs has won a $137m contract to programme-manage the rebuild. Hired…

US engineer Jacobs has completed California’s first wildlife overpass as part of the Clinton Keith Road Extension Project in Murrieta in the south of the state. Jacobs planned, designed and…

Jacobs has won a contract to inspect all 85 bridges on 127 track-miles of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS). MTS racked up 75.6 million passenger trips in the…

US engineer Jacobs will help build a $3.3bn, 3.5GW solar farm and a 4.5GW battery system in the Philippines to help it cut its dependence on coal for power generation.…

A joint venture of Jacobs and McCarthy has won a $160m contract to improve groundwater desalination capacity in southern California, where over-extraction of groundwater in the first half of the…

Municipal authority Metro Vancouver has picked a joint venture of Aecom and Jacobs to provide preliminary engineering services for the $7.05bn (C$9.9bn) upgrade of Vancouver’s Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.…

A team made up of North American engineers AtkinsRéalis, Jacobs and Westinghouse has landed a 10-year contract worth $2.3bn to operate a nuclear waste treatment plant for the US Department…

Jacobs is overseeing a $227.5m project to upgrade three stations on the busy Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The design-build contract involves…

UK consultant Mace has been awarded a delivery partner role on the King Salman International Airport project in Riyadh. When complete in 2030, it will cover 57 sq km and…

A team led by US engineers Aecom and Jacobs has won Amtrak’s first ever “delivery partner” contract, which will tackle a $6bn upgrade of a rail corridor in Baltimore, Maryland.…

US engineer Jacobs has opened a research centre in Denmark to help meet demand for specialised construction skills in the life sciences, advanced manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. Jacobs plans to…

Jacobs has won another contract to provide planning and advisory services to Ireland’s National Transport Authority (NTA). The company will advise on urban and local transport development plans, and general…

Ireland’s Cork County Council has picked US engineer Jacobs to be its technical advisor for the new M28 motorway linking the N40 South Ring Road to the Port of Cork…

US engineer Jacobs has been selected by ThyssenKrupp to manage the decarbonisation of Europe’s largest steel mill in Duisburg, western Germany. The project involves substituting coke blast furnaces with hydrogen-powered…

Mace says it has made history in Greece, overseeing with JV partner Jacobs “the single biggest concrete pour in the history of the country” to lay the foundations for the…

Aecom has appointed Mark Southwell as chief executive of its global transportation business. A civil engineer with more than 35 years experience, he joined Aecom in 2019 as managing director…

US engineer Jacobs has been awarded a $249m architecture and engineering contract by the US Navy for renovation, repair and the construction of facilities. The job was awarded to Jacobs…

US engineer Jacobs has won a design-and-build contract for a $500m water purification plant in Los Angeles. The Donald C Tillman Advanced Water Purification Facility (AWPF) will gather and store…