We are continually challenging today to reinvent tomorrow. We start with “what if” to push the limits of what is possible and use our deep technical expertise to turn ideas into reality. Our teams deliver major projects across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and beyond.
The Thames Tideway Tunnel will clean up one of London’s greatest natural assets, the iconic River Thames, protect it for generations to come and improve the quality of life for all Londoners. At 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.
The tunnel, now constructed, runs from east to west London and will modernise the city’s 150-year-old sewer system, originally built for a population less than half its current size, reducing untreated discharges into the River Thames by tens of millions of tons per year. Once complete in 2025, the new super sewer will dramatically reduce sewage pollution, creating a cleaner, healthier River Thames and enabling the capital’s sewer system to continue to serve London for at least the next 100 years.
Jacobs has been the program manager for the Thames Tideway Tunnel since 2008, building on our record of delivering major urban wastewater treatment projects globally. The Thames Tideway Tunnel is the kind of highly complex program that Jacobs enjoys tackling; with multi-site delivery and significant challenges demanding innovation and better ways of working to achieve the best outcomes.
Over two decades, we’ve supported Crossrail to deliver the Elizabeth line, a complex and significant transport solution in London, U.K., that paves the way for social, environmental and economic opportunities of national significance that will last generations.
The program delivery also creates an immense learning legacy that will benefit future major infrastructure development and their communities globally.
The first new nuclear power station to be built in the U.K. in over 20 years, EDF’s Hinkley Point C in Somerset is expected to meet approximately 7% of the U.K.’s electricity needs and make a major contribution to the U.K.’s ambition to reduce carbon emissions.
Jacobs is supporting EDF with wide-ranging professional technical and project management services. Our UKAS-accredited Inspection Validation Center is the project’s sole supplier for independent verification of ultrasound inspections on safety critical components.
CLM, a consortium of CH2M (now Jacobs), Laing O’Rourke and Mace, was appointed by the Olympic Delivery Authority to deliver the Olympic Park and associated infrastructure for London 2012.
We helped to deliver a six-year, $15 billion program to design and build 30 sustainable venues and scalable infrastructure. To top it off, the project was completed a year ahead of schedule and 10% below budget. Key to its long-term success is the impact of wider regeneration of the area and the creation of new opportunities for communities.
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.
Working collaboratively as an integrated delivery team with the Environment Agency and Balfour Beatty, our job is to plan, inspect, refurbish and improve flood defenses along 330-kilometers of the River Thames and reduce the risk of tidal flooding to protect some 1.4 million people, over 4,000 different assets and over $396 billion (£321 billion) worth of property in London, Essex and Kent. This is part of the Thames Estuary 2100 Plan, which will adapt the riversides to rising sea levels over the next 100 years.
TEAM2100 advocates a programmatic approach to managing tidal flood defenses, aspiring to reduce the overall costs by seeking to invest in the right places at the right time. This major program also aims to deliver greater value for public money through innovation, and greater collaboration and joint planning with the supply chain. The program has maintained its ISO55000 asset management accreditation, reflecting an international standard for asset management.
Powering the new way to energy
The dream of fusion power depends first and foremost on a self-sustaining fusion reaction, with most of the heating power needed coming from within the reaction itself, rather than from external sources. This is what ITER is all about: trying to create those conditions, in a stable and predictable way, as a starting point towards developing future fusion power stations.
ITER is the world’s largest fusion power experiment and if it can overcome some immense technical challenges, it’s no exaggeration to say that its success will change the world.
Jacobs leads the Momentum joint venture, which is the construction management-as-agent (CMA) contractor at ITER, responsible for coordinating the assembly of more than one million components in the ITER machine. The CMA task began in 2016 but our support to the project, based in Provence, France, goes back decades.
Integrating renewable sources into Germany’s electricity grid
With a target to generate 80% of its power from renewable sources by 2030 and 100% by 2035, Germany’s power grid needs to be significantly updated to accommodate this transition.
The country’s solution, SuedLink, will deliver new underground cable connection to transport wind power from northern Germany to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. At a length of 700 kilometers, SuedLink will be the largest transmission cable in the network and the longest underground power cable in the world.
Integrating renewable sources, such as wind and solar power, into Germany’s electricity grid, it’ll also link with interconnectors to provide cross-border energy resilience.
The underground cable line is being planned and built by the transmission system operators TenneT and TransnetBW, with an investment of approximately $11 billion (10 billion euros). TenneT is responsible for the northern section of the cable connection, TransnetBW for its southern part.
Jacobs will provide an integrated delivery partner approach to program and contract management, planning and approvals, stakeholder engagement, logistics, technical and other services on behalf of TenneT and TransnetBW respectively.
