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A more sustainable, climate-resilient water future
From water scarcity, aging infrastructure to climate change, our clients are navigating 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.
In a longstanding partnership spanning more than a decade, Jacobs is a proud Founding Sponsor of Singapore International Water Week (SIWW), a global platform for sharing and co-creating innovative solutions to tackle urban water challenges.
From June 18-22, SIWW 2024 will bring together global thought leaders, experts and practitioners to share insights and best practices on innovative water, coastal and flood solutions, and foster partnerships for a more sustainable, climate-resilient water future.
Jacobs’ global leaders and industry-leading experts will be at SIWW to elevate solutions and innovations to these complex, interconnected challenges – from advanced treatment and digital technologies, nexus and circularity to coastal protection and flood resilience.
“Singapore is a leader in water sustainability, overcoming unprecedented challenges from land and water scarcity, droughts, floods, to water pollution. We’re privileged to have supported Public Utilities Board (PUB), Singapore’s National Water Agency, in advancing the Singapore Water Story, from developing capabilities to treat, recycle, and supply water to transitioning toward a smart utility of the future. We’re proud to support SIWW’s platform for innovation and knowledge-sharing – to build on these industry-leading achievements and unlock new possibilities for a more sustainable, climate-resilient future in Singapore and beyond.”
Patrick Hill
At Jacobs, we make the world smarter, more connected and more sustainable.
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40 +
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~ 60 K
talent force
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400
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# 1
in Sewer & Waste, Sanitary & Storm Systems, Wastewater Treatment Plants (Engineering News-Record 2024)
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9 K+
visionary water teammates globally
Jacobs at SIWW 2024
From June 19-21, visit Jacobs at the Water Expo, booth B2-H35, as we showcase our latest projects and innovations around the globe. Enjoy a cup of coffee on us while exploring exhibit themes like Climate Response, Digital OneWater, and Major Programs across our booth. And don’t miss our exciting lineup of presentations at Jacobs Hub, where our experts and project teams will discuss the latest urban water technologies, innovation, and insights on key projects.
Located at Hall A on Level 1 of Sands Expo and Convention Center, the SIWW Coastal and Flood Risk Exhibit will showcase Jacobs’ global resilience projects and how we’re helping cities worldwide protect vital assets and safeguard communities.
Join our experts in meaningful discussions, presentations and workshops across SIWW's flagship programs, including the Water Leaders Summit, Water Convention, Water Expo, and Thematic and Business Forums.
Learn how Jacobs is leading the way in creating sustainable, climate-resilient solutions for the future.
Climate Response
From addressing water scarcity, infrastructure decarbonization, coastal and flood risks to advancing sustainable water resource recovery, we co-create infrastructure, technology, and intelligent solutions with our clients to mitigate, adapt and thrive in the face of ever-increasing extreme climate events.
Across natural and built environments our adaptation and resiliency experts engage with clients and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, assisting in early hazard definition, evaluation, strategy development, and solution design and implementation, including operations and maintenance of utility and infrastructure assets.
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Mitigation
Implementing solutions to minimize the impacts of climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote resource circularity across the urban water cycle.
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Adaptation
Planning and adapting ahead to withstand climate impacts, safeguard communities, protect critical infrastructure assets and enhance biodiversity and ecosystem resilience.
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Resilience
Developing robust water and wastewater systems to secure reliable and sustainable water resources for communities and ecosystems.
Explore our climate response projects
Our global portfolio of projects has supported clients with addressing dynamic issues like aging infrastructure, impacts from climate change, water scarcity, flooding and affordability. The solutions we develop in collaboration with our clients provide communities with the foundations they need to flourish and grow.
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Port of San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program
The Port’s Waterfront Resilience Program allows for the strengthening and adaptation of over seven miles of waterfront, including the more than three-mile, century-old seawall that protects critical regional transportation assets, utilities, and over $100 billion in assets and annual economic activity.
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Tyndall Air Force Base
Following a devastating Category 5 hurricane that damaged 100% of Tyndall Air Force Base's assets, Jacobs is exploring a series of pilot projects that use nature-based solutions to reduce coastal flood risks while creating important social and environmental benefits.
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Sidmouth Flood Alleviation Scheme
A flood alleviation scheme to protect residents and properties in Sidmouth, U.K. from future flooding doubles up as an amphitheater for the local community.
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Steart Coastal Management Project
One of the U.K.'s largest coastal management schemes, Steart is an example of working with nature to restore habitats, mitigate flood risk and respond to climate change.
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Ejby Mølle Water Resource Recovery Facility
In an innovative partnership with Jacobs, VCS Denmark broke the mold for how utilities approach energy optimization – creating a water resource recovery facility that generates more than 150% of its own energy.
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Singapore's NEWater Model
We supported PUB in developing five NEWater plants, which further purify treated, used water to produce ultraclean, high-grade reclaimed wastewater to meet more than half of Singapore’s future water demand.
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Pure Water Project Las Virgenes-Triunfo
Jacobs is serving as a program manager for a visionary water reuse program in Southern California that will create a resilient drinking water supply and protect the local ecosystem.
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Baton Rouge
As part of a decades-long partnership with the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge in Louisiana, Jacobs managed a $1.6 billion wastewater system upgrade program to meet the requirements of a federal consent decree, protect public health and the environment and realize Baton Rouge’s future sewer infrastructure needs.
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East Side Coastal Resiliency
As part of a multi-disciplinary team, Jacobs is one of two design leads and engineers-of-record for a flood protection system that will not only protect the neighborhood and the New York City’s critical infrastructure from future flooding but will also make the communities safer and more vibrant.
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Lower Otter Restoration
The project will restore the Otter estuary, reconnecting it with its floodplain and creating approximately 136 acres of mudflat and saltmarsh, and providing a better place for people and wildlife.
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Changi Greasy Waste and Food Waste Treatment Facilities
Jacobs is working with PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency, to provide professional engineering services for the development of the new greasy waste and food waste treatment facilities to maximize energy and resource recovery at the Changi Water Reclamation Plant.
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UK Circular Economy in Water Research
Jacobs delivered a collaborative research with Jacobs worked with Brunel University London and Allied Waters, to provide a vision and path forward for the water sector’s circular economy journey.
Digital OneWater
As a leader in pioneering the water sector’s digital transformation, we’re supporting our clients with integrated data solutions across the entire water cycle.
Every day we’re using innovative digital technologies to improve how we plan, design, build, maintain and operate water and wastewater infrastructure. From improved flood prediction to reduced energy usage in facilities, we know better than anyone how data solutions are transforming the global water sector – and we’re bringing that deep domain expertise to our clients.
Our vision for water’s digital transformation is an extension of our OneWater approach. By taking a holistic view of our clients’ challenges across the entire water cycle, we can deploy integrated data solutions that provide comprehensive benefits. We recognize the importance of a complete system-wide digital approach that moves beyond optimizing assets and networks in isolation.
Our Digital OneWater approach identifies digital solutions across four key pillars of a utility’s operations:
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Customer interaction
Enhancing the customer experience with tools like improved billing, collection systems or automated customer alerts.
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Regulatory compliance
Ensuring water quality and compliance with technologies such as real-time contaminant monitoring tools or advanced controls for sewer flooding.
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Planning & investment
Implementing resilient and cost-effective capital improvements using methods such as demand forecasting, flood prediction, or process simulation.
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Operational performance
Optimizing the operational lifecycle with strategies like predictive maintenance, automated operations, or reduced chemical and energy use.
Here are the benefits:
- Data-driven insights: With tools like digital twins and machine learning, we can better understand our clients’ water systems in their current condition – and predict how they’ll perform in future.
- Enhance systems thinking: We’re not only focused on single assets. We can integrate data solutions across networks and catchments to better understand the entire water management system in real-time.
- Reduce risk and improve performance: Complete system-wide, lifecycle insight allows our clients to make better-informed decisions, optimize long-term operations and protect public health. Digital OneWater enables the shift from reactive to proactive planning and operations.
- Support operations staff: Data-enabled solutions help essential O&M staff perform their work more efficiently, from automated scheduling and operations to improved operator training and knowledge transfer.
- Maximize digital benefits: Digital OneWater avoids the silos created by separate products and isolated datasets. We help our clients look for common benefits and outcomes that maximize return on investment, incorporate system-wide cybersecurity practices and fully leverage existing information systems.
Our Digital OneWater ecosystem
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Aqua DNA
Aqua DNA, an intelligent digital solution that collects live data and improves wastewater network performance using smart sensors and AI-powered predictive analytics to reduce risk and make a positive societal and environmental impact.
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Replica
Replica is Jacobs' digital twin solution software platform, delivering intelligent solutions for our customers around the world for more than 20 years.
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Dragonfly
Dragonfly efficiently provides the accurate data and AI-driven recommendations your team needs to optimize decision-making and refine your system management and intervention strategies.
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Flood Modeller
Flood Modeller is an industry-leading flood modeling software which enables engineers and scientists to deliver faster and more accurate results by simplifying the modelling of river, surface water, and urban drainage systems, and removes the need to use other software.
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Intelligent O&M
Intelligent O&M is a powerful blending of Jacobs’ water subject matter expertise in operations, design and data science, with Palantir’s Foundry platform and user interface, to provide direct and predictive guidance to frontline operation and management (O&M) staff.
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Argon
Argon is an asset management tool for linear sewer and storm water assets that helps utilities manage field data and determine next steps. Argon has been refined with engineering logic and AI to provide accurate condition scores, risk scores, recommended next steps and costs.
Explore our digital projects
Jacobs has been at the forefront of the global water sector’s digital transformation for over a decade. Learn how we’re supporting our clients with integrated data solutions across the water cycle.
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Digital Twin of Changi Water Reclamation Plant
We’re partnering with PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, to develop and trial a whole plant simulation model for the Changi Water Reclamation Plant. The model will be the first application of its kind to help replicate plant operations and predict future performance in real-time.
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Wastewater Nutrient Control
Jacobs has been tasked to develop and test an artificial intelligence (AI) nutrient control software tool that will leverage advanced modeling techniques to optimize nutrient management at water resource recovery facilities.
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Real-time Flood Forecasting for Climate Response
Jacobs partnered with the Environment Agency in England to develop a cloud-based platform that improves forecasting and decision-making during flood events.
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Machine Learning: Predicting the Water Quality Impacts of Major Forest Fires
With major forest fires posing significant threats to watershed quality and the performance of drinking water treatment plants, Jacobs is applying machine learning tools to predict the impacts.
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Leveraging data and technology to drive efficiency on Britain’s busiest waterway
We’re leveraging data and technology to monitor real-time performance data on key critical assets within the Thames Estuary system to identify any performance changes, reduce whole-life costs of asset management and minimize any changes in flood risk.
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Integrated digital delivery for Tuas Water Reclamation Plant
The project teams used a digital visualization platform to tender their over 2,500 BIM models while also reducing labor and costs and tightening group coordination.
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South East Water Smart Meter Data Analytics
South East Water is planning the implementation of a Smart Network that will integrate existing infrastructure, introduce smart metering and increased Internet of Things sensor density to deliver more effective decision making that will reduce leakage and improve operational efficiencies.
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Atlanta Digital Transformation and Smart H2O Utility Assessment
Jacobs was selected by the City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management to create a strategic action plan for DWM’s digital transformation into a Smart H2O Utility.
Major Programs
Bringing lessons learned and best practice from more than 50 years of major program delivery, our clients trust us to deliver their most iconic infrastructure needs.
At Jacobs, we deliver today’s most complex, challenging and iconic infrastructure and transformation programs. We work with our clients, across multiple sectors, to unlock better social, environmental and economic outcomes.
We integrate complex systems and stakeholders, by combining our deep domain knowledge, technical expertise and digital enablement with a real intimacy of our clients’ business. We address global challenges in an integrated way, from urbanization, climate change, logistics and digital proliferation to security, water scarcity, investment partnerships and mega infrastructure.
Explore our featured programs
Bringing lessons learned and best practice from more than 50 years of major program delivery, our clients trust us to deliver their most iconic infrastructure needs.
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NEOM THE LINE
We’re providing project and construction management consultancy services for the design, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning of THE LINE, a linear and cognitive city under development in the northwest of Saudi Arabia.
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TEAM2100
Thames Estuary Asset Management (TEAM 2100) was set up by England’s Environment Agency to create a long-term approach to managing tidal flood defenses in London and the Thames Estuary, including the iconic Thames Barrier. Jacobs is managing the first 10 years of the program.
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Thames Tideway Tunnel
Jacobs has been the program manager for the Thames Tideway Tunnel since 2008, a 25-kilometers long and at its deepest 70-meters below ground, Thames Tideway Tunnel is the largest water infrastructure project ever undertaken in the U.K.
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Tuas Water Reclamation Plant
The Tuas Water Reclamation Plant will be one of the world’s largest membrane bioreactor facilities, treating 800,000 cubic meters of used water daily. It will integrate with the National Environment Agency’s Integrated Waste Management Facility to reap synergies of the water-energy-waste nexus for enhanced efficiency.
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Bangalore 2050 Water, Wastewater & Asset Management Masterplan
Jacobs has prepared the Water, Wastewater and Asset Management Master Plan – 2050 for Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board. Driven by sustainability and climate resiliency, the master plan will guide infrastructure investment and asset management for the next 30+ years.
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Central Interceptor
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.
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California Delta Conveyance Program
Jacobs is the Engineering Design Manager for the Delta Conveyance project that ultimately conveys clean water from northern to southern California. Estimated at $20 billion, this program is considered an essential resiliency and climate adaptation strategy that will protect the future of water supply in California.
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Miami-Dade Ocean Outfall Program
As the program manager for Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department’s $3.3 billion Ocean Outfall Legislation Program, Jacobs is entrusted with managing the overall delivery of a comprehensive, technically sound, long-term program that encompasses the design, procurement, construction and commissioning of an estimated 28 capital projects.
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Donald C. Tillman Advanced Water Purification Facility
At an estimated cost of $500 million, the new facility is a key part of the City of Los Angeles' long-term water management objective to fully reuse its water supplies and is one of the largest potable reuse projects in the country.
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Pure Water Project Las Virgenes-Triunfo
Jacobs is providing program management services for the Las Virgenes-Triunfo Joint Powers Authority’s visionary Pure Water Project that will reuse advanced treated wastewater to enhance local water supply reliability and eliminate wastewater discharges to a protected waterway. This is one of the first surface water augmentation programs for potable reuse in California.
Future Foundations.
Co-creating the world to come
From developing climate resilience and transitioning to a low-carbon future, to modernizing and transforming infrastructure, governments and businesses face critical challenges. How they respond will define our future.
As our clients navigate these challenges, we help them think differently – working together to pioneer tomorrow's infrastructure solutions and build the foundations for a prosperous, secure future.
Meet our key speakers
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Patrick Hill
President, Global Operations
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Susan Moisio
Vice President and Global Water Director
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Paul Swaim
Vice President, Global Principal for Drinking Water & Reuse
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Charles Dickson
Senior Resident Engineer (Tunnel)
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Adam Hosking
Global Director, Water Resources and Resilience Solutions
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Shu Yi Chow
Senior Environmental Engineer
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Tim Constantine
Global Director, Water Resource Recovery Solutions
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Yvain Chong
Project Manager
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Andrew Pearson
Program Manager, TEAM2100
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Emma Shen
Global Principal for Wastewater Energy Optimization and Sector Decarbonization
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Constanze Simmermacher
Global Principal for Desalination and Membrane Treatment
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Colin Newberry
Technical Director and Regional Market Solutions Director (Water) Asia
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