Bill Birkhofer leads the aerospace and defense portfolios of Jacobs Engineering Group as a senior vice president with additional responsibilities over the Pasadena, Calif.-based contractor’s global infrastructure and telecommunications The two-time inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 group holds four decades of experience in the engineering and construction fields and participates in GovCon industry trade associations such as […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to manage the construction works for EDF Energy’s nuclear power station project in Somerset, U.K. EDF will kick off the building, marine and civil works on the construction site after it had reached a deal with the U.K. government for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, Jacobs said Monday. […] More

The City of Chattanooga, Tennessee has awarded a fifth year contract renewal to Jacobs Engineering Group for program management services in support of a $300 million wastewater system upgrade project. Jacobs said Thursday it will provide professional, technical, administrative and personnel support for the Waste Resource Division Wet Weather EPA Consent Decree program that covers work on Chattanooga’s wastewater treatment and collection system facilities. […] More

Highways England has partnered with Jacobs Engineering Group to identify design options for multiple planned road improvement projects in the east, southeast and northwest regions of England. Jacobs said Tuesday it will provide engineering design services for civil engineering works and traffic technology, surveys, stakeholder engagement, traffic and building information modeling, environmental and principal designer services to Highways England. The stage two […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for Novartis Pharma‘s estimated $100 million  biotechnology center expansion project in France. Novartis Pharma aims to increase its biotechnology center’s production capacity by 70 percent and build a second line of purification to manufacture multiple drugs at the same time, Jacobs said Thursday. The project is […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to evaluate requirements for a U.K. defense ministry contract related to a land equipment project in the country. Jacobs said Wednesday it will support the service provision and transformation contract for the ministry’s strategic support supplier project that aims to make training and operations equipment available to the British navy, army […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has appointed Steven Demetriou, company president and CEO, to take the additional role of chairman of the board and named Linda Fayne Levinson, a director at Jacobs and VendareNetblue chairman, as lead director. “The board concluded it is in the best interest of the company and its shareholders to combine the roles of chairman and CEO,” Noel […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has secured a contract from Network Rail to support the latter’s development consent order submission on a proposed rail link project in the U.K. Jacobs said Wednesday the project seeks to update rail links from the Great Western main line to Heathrow Airport to provide direct travel to the airport from Reading and Slough. Jacobs added its team […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has moved to expand its field services business in the Gulf Coast region after the company received contracts from several clients there. The company said Tuesday it received a five-year contract to perform maintenance and material transfer support services at seven customer locations across Texas and Louisiana. Jacobs also aims to continue its the Journeyman Certification Program that works to train […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group will provide consulting and analysis services to city utilities in Springfield, Missouri, to facilitate compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency’s coal combustion residual regulations under a $4.9 million contract. The contract covers environmental and geophysical investigations, control plan development, site planning, compliance recommendations in order to address surface impoundments and landfills and other professional […] More

The U.S. Army has awarded a five-year, $32.3 million contract to Jacobs Engineering Group to provide a range of enterprise information technology services to the service branch’s program executive office for missiles and space. Jacobs said Tuesday it will also provide IT support for eight subordinate organizations of the Army PEO MS as well as the Army’s PEO Aviation, […] More

Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to manage and support the construction of fossil plants and hydro dams located in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky for an undisclosed contract amount. The company will provide managed task construction management services for the Tennessee Valley Authority’s civil projects and coal combustion product management group under the terms of the contract, Jacobs […] More