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Jacobs at Ozwater’23

We’re excited to be showcasing our water solutions for a more connected, sustainable world at Ozwater’23 in Sydney, Australia.

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Water is one natural resource we all share — it shapes our lives, communities, ecosystems and climate — and managing this essential resource has never been more complicated. From climate change to emerging contaminants, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges as they work to provide critical water services and protect their communities and the environment.

At Jacobs, our planners, engineers and scientists work with our clients every day to solve their water challenges with customized, innovative solutions and new ways of thinking. Our OneWater approach — viewing all water as resource and developing integrated, holistic solutions that provide comprehensive benefits — is supported by our industry-leading capabilities across the entire water cycle and project lifecycle. Our complete technical expertise includes drinking water & reuse, wastewater, water conveyance & storage, water resource management and digital solutions.

Come and find us at Ozwater’23 in Sydney, Booth number G24 to meet our team and learn more.

Meet the team presenting at Ozwater’23

Mary Kanavoutsos Executive Market Director – Water, ANZ

Over the last 28 years, Mary has worked in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., Asia and the Middle East, helping clients, industry and communities with the delivery of water infrastructure. Over the course of her career, she’s worked in technical, commercial, project delivery and business development roles within the water industry. Her area of technical expertise is water treatment, desalination and water reuse. Mary will be giving the opening address at the Directors Program on May 10.
Janine Barrow Global Senior Director – Sustainability and Climate Response

Janine, alongside her colleagues in the Jacobs Office of ESG and Climate Response, is responsible for strategy, growth, driving innovation and maintaining connectivity across global operations. She has expertise in integrating sustainability/environmental social and governance (ESG) frameworks and decarbonization approaches at a strategic and operational level of business planning and the role that energy transition has in the net zero agenda. Janine will be facilitating the Decarbonization panel discussion as part of the Directors Program on May 10.
Rhyl Jones McCoy ANZ Social Value Leader & Technical Director Co-Design

Rhyl’s strategic consulting work focuses on bringing social value into infrastructure conversations, to create generational legacies for people and places. Rhyl is a skilled facilitator who leads multi-disciplinary workshops across city shaping projects in placemaking, planning and transport. She applies her training in psychology and Human Centred Design to blend engagement and social planning to shape sustainable infrastructure, places and programs that are responsive to people’s needs. Rhyl will be facilitating the Social Value panel discussion as part of the Directors Program on May 10.
Aprilia Vellacott Technical Director - Wastewater, ANZ

Aprilia has over 20 years' experience in the design, operation and optimization of advanced wastewater treatment plants with a focus on carbon and energy efficient wastewater treatment. As the water industry transitions to net zero, Aprilia is committed to assisting wastewater treatment plants reduce emissions. Aprilia will be presenting on Monitoring and mitigation of N2O - An introduction and lessons from global evidence on Friday May 12, 1:55pm - 2:20pm. She is also a panelist on the “Net-zero Emission Program for the Australian Urban Water Industry” panel discussion on Wednesday May 10 at 4pm.
Amanda Goldfarb Associate Archaeologist, Technical Leader – Heritage

Amanda is a qualified archaeologist with over 12 years’ experience in the industry. Amanda is the Acting Team Leader for Historical Heritage, and a Technical Leader for the Heritage Section. She is dedicated to protecting and managing Australia’s cultural heritage values and believes in forming collaborative partnerships with Traditional Custodians to generate culturally meaningful outcomes. Amanda will be presenting on Beyond 'stones and bones': forming collaborative partnerships with traditional custodians for the Lockerbie Sewer Project on Thursday May 11, 1:50pm - 2:15pm.
Kate Simmonds Section Leader Water Infrastructure, New Zealand

Kate is an engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the water industry. Kate leads Jacobs New Zealand Water Infrastructure team and is passionate about creating an inclusive and diverse working environment and growing and retaining a diverse pool of talent within the engineering industry. Kate will be presenting on Airing our dirty laundry - An open account for our inclusion and diversity journey on Thursday May 11, 2:15pm - 2:40pm.
Becky Macdonald Principal Wastewater Engineer, And Regional Solutions Director - Water Infrastructure

Becky Macdonald is devoted to looking after our environment for future generations and is determined to make a difference to the world we live in. Her 20+ years career has revolved around the treatment of wastewater so that our environment is better off as a result of actions she has taken. Becky will be presenting on Project Phoenix - Restoring treatment following the Christchurch WWTP fire on Wednesday May 10, 2:15pm - 2:40pm.
Larry Schimmoller Global Principal for Water Reuse

Global Principal for Water Reuse Larry has extensive experience in the design, construction, and operation of potable and non-potable water reuse projects throughout the world. He has served as the Principal Investigator or co-PI on numerous research projects focused on water reuse. Larry will be presenting on Supply resiliency through potable reuse at two major metropolitan centers - potential pathway for Greater Sydney on Thursday May 11, 10:55am - 11:20am.
Jon Bates Design Manager

Jon has over 25 years’ experience working in the water industry across water, wastewater and recycled water treatment. Jon thrives on problem solving and optimization of treatment plant operations. Jon will be presenting on Supercharging granular media filtration on Wednesday May 10, 11:20am - 11:45am.
Gokul Bharambe Principal Process Engineer and Technical Director – Resource Recovery

Gokul has 18 years of professional experience in wastewater treatment and chemical production industries, and is passionate about the circular economy, waste to energy, advanced digestion, co-digestion, THP, thermal processing, resource and energy recovery. Gokul specializes in biosolids infrastructure planning, analysis, and design. Gokul will be presenting on Where should my THP go? Drivers & solutions to implementing thermal hydrolysis at woodman point on Friday May 12, 11:25am - 11:50am.
James Moore Principal – Climate Action

James is a Principal at Jacobs specializing in climate change mitigation and adaptation. He has over 20 years’ experience split between the U.K. and Australia supporting organizations in the public and private sectors, and especially in the utility and infrastructure space. Most recently he has been assisting the water and wastewater sector to develop Scope 3 inventories, net zero roadmaps and to assess and disclose the risks they face from climate change. James is based in Newcastle but supports projects across Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. James is a panellist on the Decarbonization panel as part of the Directors Program on May 10.
Clarissa Phillips Technical Director - Digital Delivery

Clarissa is the Technical Director - Digital Delivery at Jacobs and provides technical support, guidance and direction to project delivery teams to support Jacobs’ water clients’ future Digital Twin vision. Clarissa is passionate about digital engineering and is excited to be a part of this fast-moving industry. Her focus right now is on setting up BIModels with data information that will improve water utility asset data management and integration. Clarissa is participating as a panellist in the Young Water Professionals program titled “Water – United by Data” on May 9.
Michelle Watson Global Director of Geospatial Solutions

Michelle is part of our Global Leadership Team focused on supporting our clients in digital business and transformation. Michelle is committed to supporting clients define and deliver practical, fit for purpose solutions designed to grow and scale as organizations make their transition towards a digital future. An innovator and collaborator by nature, Michelle understands that the key to digital success is to maintain focus on the outcomes a business seeks to achieve. Michelle is presenting on leveraging the power of location-based tools & intelligence to realize service value for our customers on Friday May 12, 12:15 p.m. - 12:40 p.m.
Emma Carden Project Manager, Water

Emma has over 19 years’ experience working across a wide spectrum of the water industry, in both government and consulting and in the water industries of Victoria, the U.K. and the Solomon Islands. Emma is passionate about outcomes which consider resilience, risk management, operations and performance across the whole asset life. Emma will be presenting on climate resilient wastewater systems of the future on Friday May 12, 12:15 p.m. - 12:40 p.m.

Solving water challenges across Australia and New Zealand

Our Water team are a leading solutions provider in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) delivering results for our clients across the entire water cycle. Our 500-strong ANZ Water team is supported by over 9000+ water teammates globally. We work closely with other business units to deliver innovative multi-disciplined solutions leveraging Jacobs’ whole-of-business expertise. We provide innovative and pragmatic solutions across the full project lifecycle encompassing strategy, development, design, delivery and operations and maintenance.

This year at Ozwater we’re proud to once again be sponsoring the Director’s Program. We’re excited to shape the themes of this exclusive forum for Directors and CEOs across the water industry. Our Jacobs team of Mary Kanavoutsos, Rhyl Jones McCoy and Janine Barrow will be leading the session Improving social value on the way to net-zero and facilitating two panel discussions on Social Value and Decarbonization.

We also have several Jacobs presentations within the technical stream covering topics including climate resilience, emissions reduction, digital water, cultural heritage, and inclusion and diversity.

We invite you to visit our booth No. G24 to network with our team, meet our presenters and discover more about our leading water innovations and solutions.

All water is OneWater. Let us show you how…

As global supply and demand for water intensifies, solving the world’s most complex water challenges demands different thinking -- a OneWater approach where all water has value -- recognizing how water both affects us and connects us. And that’s where we come in. Learn how Jacobs is helping to future-proof life-sustaining water and wastewater to deliver a more sustainable and climate-resilient water future for communities, industries and places for decades to come.

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Global emissions in the water sector: challenges and opportunities

Discover how VCS Denmark, PUB and Yarra Valley Water are tackling the decarbonization challenge head on in this episode of Breakthroughs, a global miniseries developed in collaboration with 2030 Breakthroughs (a U.N. high-level Climate Champions Initiative.)

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Explore some of our water projects

Greater Melbourne Urban Water System Strategy: Water for Life

Jacobs helped develop a 50-year resilient and sustainable water supply strategy for the Greater Melbourne region using an adaptive planning approach to manage future climate variability. As technical leads, our Jacobs team worked with Greater Melbourne water businesses, the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) and industry stakeholders in a collaborative approach to develop the draft adaptive plan. The plan clarifies the short-term supply system augmentation options to enhance Greater Melbourne’s water security and provides direction on readiness activities to undertake now to ensure that longer-term options are available and adaptable to various possible futures.
Quakers Hill Purified Recycled Water Demonstration Plant

Jacobs, as part of Confluence Water, has been working on the detailed design and construction of a purified recycled water demonstration facility at Quakers Hill in Sydney? Our team has provided engineering management, project management, process, mechanical, electrical, civil and structural engineering, drafting, including 3D modelling, and safety in design. As part of Sydney Water's Purified Recycled Water (PRW) Foundation Project, the demonstration plant and visitor centre will provide a testing facility for the production of high-quality water from wastewater effluent that meets the Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling phase 2. Construction is underway, with completion expected in early 2023.
Central Interceptor - New Zealand’s Largest-Ever Wastewater Project

Central Interceptor (CI), the supersized wastewater tunnel, will play a crucial role in ensuring cleaner waterways for central Auckland, New Zealand. CI is New Zealand's largest-ever wastewater project and an integral part of Watercare’s region-wide wastewater strategy. Construction of the project began in 2019 and is expected to continue over a period of seven years, until 2026. Since 2014, Jacobs' global and local teams with extensive experience in constructing deep tunnel water conveyance systems have been engaged as the Professional Engineering Advisor on this mega project, providing detailed design services. In 2019, we secured a contract extension to offer construction management and design support services for the construction phase of the CI project. Once operational, CI will reduce the wet weather overflows in the area by up to 80%.
Greater Sydney Water Strategy

Jacobs is contributing to a more resilient water future by helping develop the Greater Sydney Water Strategy, providing strategic planning and direction for the next 20-40 years. As technical advisors, #OurJacobs team identified and developed a range of possible options (build and non-build) and options portfolios for securing Greater Sydney’s water supply and improving its resilience while recognizing and responding to the community’s expectation to enhance livability and waterway health. We were responsible for delivering the engineering options/portfolio development and Integrated Water Management workstream. Our complete services included collating and reviewing relevant information, collaborating with DPIE, Sydney Water, Water NSW and their economic advisors, developing a portfolio of options including high-level costing, and developing strategies under various future scenarios.
Mount Isa City Council’s Smart Water Meter Program

Jacobs is helping Mount Isa City Council in northwest Queensland realize its smart water management vision by facilitating the implementation of its smart water meter program. Jacobs was appointed to serve the effort as Procurement Lead, Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Smart Water Meter SME. In this role, we’ve provided insight and guidance that will facilitate MICC’s smart water journey and deliver the envisioned benefits. Applying our knowledge of Smart Metering technologies and our experience in delivering programs for providers across the world, we’re helping MICC capitalize on its investment in AMI technology by harnessing value from enhanced consumption data and improved operational efficiencies and stakeholder engagement.
Upper South Creek Advanced Water Recycling Centre

Jacobs, as part of a design joint venture, is delivering engineering and design services for the Upper South Creek Advanced Water Recycling Centre (AWRC) project and associated delivery pipelines in Sydney, Australia. This transformational project boosts water resilience for this growing region and helps enable the future development of smart, sustainable and livable communities. The AWRC is initially expected to treat up to 35 ML of wastewater per day and will produce purified recycled water for non-drinking purposes for the Western Sydney Aerotropolis and Southwest Growth Area. It is also expected to be a foundational element in the Western Parklands Precinct Master Plan. The AWRC is due to be operational in 2026.
Woodman Point Water Recovery Facility Sludge Treatment Upgrade

Jacobs, together with Alliance Partner Clough, has been selected to deliver the design, construction and commissioning of the sludge processing system at the Woodman Point Water Resource Recovery Facility (WRRF) in Perth, Australia. Jacobs will provide engineering and design services for the upgrade as part of the Alliance, including process, civil, mechanical, structural, electrical, instrumentation and controls, energy recovery and odor control. Jacobs will also coordinate the geotechnical site investigation and feature and level survey, and provide design support throughout the construction, commissioning and handover phases of the project. Construction on the sludge upgrade project will begin in 2023 and is expected to be completed in mid-2026.
Yarra Valley Water Engineering Services Partnership

Jacobs was named as one of two engineering services partners to support Yarra Valley Water as it investigates, develops and delivers its capital program across water, sewer, treatment and non-drinking water services. The agreement commenced with an initial five-year term but has the capacity to be extended to up to a decade. The strategic partnerships will leverage the industry-leading engineering innovation of Jacobs, and the Beca and Stantec groups to deliver better efficiency, innovation and value for Yarra Valley Water customers, the community and the environment. As engineering services partner, our work focuses on the production of functional and detailed designs, and elements of planning, permitting, construction advice, tendering, and asset management support.