Helping to reshape a modern, healthy city… LONDON. Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) is combining its three locations across London to create a new 80,000-square-foot office space in the Cottons Centre by London Bridge. Secured under a 10-year lease, the new London office provides capacity for approximately 1,000 people including some 800 technologists, engineers, urban planners, architects, economists and other specialists from the existing locations. Teams will work together to help tackle challenges like the need for clean air and water, placemaking, connectivity and security.
“Working with city leaders to meet the demands of growth, we are helping to shape critical infrastructure to improve connectivity and the livelihoods of the public in London,” said Jacobs Buildings and Infrastructure Europe Senior Vice President and General Manager Donald Morrison. “Co-locating our three London operations into this new, vibrant location in the heart of the city will enable us to work and deliver solutions together adjacent to many of the major projects we’re supporting, like the Thames flood risk management and wastewater programmes, as well as strategies for cleaner air, transport development and other infrastructure.”
The office is currently being refurbished to meet Jacobs’ requirements for an imaginative and flexible collaborative space and is expected to open officially during the first half of 2019. Supporting modular and flexible work styles, the new space has hot-desking throughout, with standing desks and informal spaces for break-out sessions, one-to-one spaces and wellbeing rooms, as well as some 40 meeting rooms. Facilities also include cycle storage, showers and drying areas as part of Jacobs’ local Cycle to Work scheme.
With a 125-year business heritage of U.K. firms that the company continues to grow and invest in today, Jacobs has grown to more than 10,000 people across the country. Jacobs has played a leading role in delivering some of the largest infrastructure programmes in London, from the physical and social infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games, to creating transport systems that are smarter and more resilient. As part of the Thames Estuary Asset Management 2100 (TEAM210) programme, Jacobs is working with the Environment Agency and Balfour Beatty managing the extensive flood risk management system protecting 1.3 million people and £275 billion worth of property from tidal flooding along the river. Jacobs is also managing the engineering, design and delivery of Tideway, one of the world’s largest wastewater programmes, designed to dramatically improve the resiliency of London’s Victorian sewerage system.
Jacobs leads the global professional services sector delivering solutions for a more connected, sustainable world. With $15 billion in fiscal 2017 revenue when combined with full-year CH2M revenues and a talent force of more than 77,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of services including scientific, technical, professional and construction- and program-management for business, industrial, commercial, government and infrastructure sectors. For more information about career opportunities, visit www.jacobs.com/careers, and connect with Jacobs on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Images: credit Cottons Centre
