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Known for its diverse landscapes, California is a hub of innovation and opportunity.
From the tech-savvy Silicon Valley to the picturesque coastline, this state offers a rich blend of engineering and challenges. Jacobs specializes in providing multidisciplinary solutions, leveraging cutting-edge technology and sustainable practices. Whether it’s responding to the size, scale and importance of major infrastructure projects that continue to grow like never before; supporting cities that need to better prepare for sea level rise and the protection needed to reduce the impacts of future earthquakes; or leveraging environmental science, construction, or renewable energy systems, we’re navigating complex projects with expertise and passion.
Our projects
Our Jacobs teams have a strong history in California as community members and are part of some of the largest and most iconic projects. We're proud to be part of the region’s legacy and excited as it grows. Explore some of our programs, projects and initiatives across California.
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Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Jacobs is partnering with Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) to create a sustainable and enhanced passenger experience.
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Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems (ARCHES)
Jacobs is serving as program manager for ARCHES, a public private partnership (P3) establishing a statewide clean hydrogen hub (H2) in California, one of seven national hubs announced by the White House and recently granted funding by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstration (DOE OCED).
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Donald C. Tillman Advanced Water Purification Facility
Jacobs is working with LA Sanitation and Environment and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power as the progressive design-build contractor for the Donald C. Tillman Advanced Water Purification Facility, a key part of the City of Los Angeles' long-term water management goals.
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SR 94 Express Lanes Alternatives and Feasibility Study
Working with the San Diego Association of Governments, California Department of Transportation and the City of San Diego to develop alternatives and a feasibility study for adding managed lanes on a critical transportation link in the region
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Port of San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program
We're adapting 7.5-miles of the San Francisco Waterfront to be resilient to earthquakes, coastal storms and sea level rise, including the preservation and fortification of the 100-year-old Embarcadero Seawall.
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SEED School of Los Angeles County
Purposefully creating California’s first public boarding school on a former shopping plaza site will transform a vacant lot, bringing opportunity to at-risk youth and creating a brighter future for a historically marginalized Los Angeles community.
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Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority New Terminal
The new 355,000-square-foot, 14-gate terminal promises to redefine the airport experience for millions of travelers at Hollywood Burbank Airport – and we’re playing a critical role.
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Port of Oakland Freight Intelligent Transport System
Jacobs’ innovative solutions for Alameda County Transportation Commission and the Port of Oakland re-envisioned the operational environment for the Port, earning the 2024 Merit Award from ACEC California.
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Pure Water Project Las Virgenes-Triunfo
Communities are embracing OneWater principles and partnering across traditional water management siloes to repurpose wastewater and stormwater into high-quality drinking water.
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Sixth Street Viaduct
Bridging Los Angeles communities for generations to come by specializing in upfront thinking that provides strategic solutions for future outcomes.
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The Los Angeles Federal Courthouse
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) hired Jacobs as Construction Manager for a new First Street United States Federal Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, California. This new glass cube structure replaces an older building and consolidates functions from multiple locations.
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Yosemite National Park
Working with the National Park Service, Jacobs delivers rehabilitation and design of park wastewater treatment plants, furthering the health and safety of staff, visitors and the environment.
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Port of Los Angeles Automated Container Terminal
With global maritime trade expected to double in the coming decades, the need for ever-increasing efficiencies in terminal operations is intensifying. Jacobs and Port of Los Angeles dove in to digital intelligence and automation to enhance the port's competitive path to achieving record-setting cargo operations.
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Delta Conveyance Project
Jacobs is providing engineering design management (EDM) services related to the Delta Conveyance Project, California's largest water conveyance project, designed to bolster the reliability of the state's water supplies, while protecting and enhancing the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary.
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Los Angeles River Path
The LA Path will unite existing pedestrian and bicycle paths, connecting the northern valleys of Los Angeles to the seaside of Long Beach. This future active transportation path will enhance Los Angeles’ sustainable mobility goals and increase non-motorized transit, in addition to reducing regional greenhouse gas emissions.
What we do
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Water
At Jacobs, we recognize that water connects us all – and affects us all. Our planners, engineers and scientists work across traditional boundaries to develop integrated and collaborative solutions for the complete water and project lifecycle – from planning and consulting to design-build and operations.
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Transportation
We partner with our clients to provide solutions within and between the transport modes of aviation, highways, bridges, ports & maritime and rail & transit. And, our tunnel and ground engineering specialists and transport planners ensure we’re on board for every step of the journey.
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Energy & Power
From aging and retiring asset bases in traditional base load power systems, to the increasing penetration of intermittent renewable generation, Jacobs is supporting power utilities and private companies all around the world to find the best solutions to their energy and power challenges.
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Cities & Places
We integrate data, technology, mobility and connectivity to improve economic and social equity, and overall resiliency of cities and communities, and includes combined domain expertise from strategic planning, architecture, design, engineering, natural sciences and the arts.
Meet our team
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Cory Hooper, Jacobs Executive Director of Operations for California
A California native born in Glendale, California, Jacobs Executive Director of Operations Cory Hooper, has returned to his roots after living in Colorado and Florida. Cory’s favorite part of his role is providing growth opportunities for his team and mentoring others, and he’s known for always knowing how to create a community wherever he lands.
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Alicia Cannon, Jacobs Department Leader Southern California Transportation
Alicia Cannon is Jacobs’ Department Leader for the Southern California transportation market and is based in Ontario, California. She was born and raised in the Inland Empire and has spent most of her career working on local projects and improving the transportation system. Her deep understanding of institutional policies and procedures, backed by 30 years of experience in highway/roadway engineering and project management, has enabled her to successfully deliver numerous PS&E contracts.
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Seth Torma, Jacobs Transportation Planner
Seth Torma has more than 25 years of progressive transportation planning experience focused on integrating all modes of transportation – auto traffic, goods movement, transit, rail, active transportation, travel demand management and intelligent transportation systems – to deliver multimodal solutions.
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Melanie Holmer, Jacobs Vice President and Global Water Reuse Principal
Melanie Holmer recently joined Jacobs as Global Water Reuse Principal and Vice President. An environmental engineer with more than 25 years’ experience, Melanie specializes in strategic planning, process selection, detailed design, program management and technical direction in drinking water, wastewater and water reuse.
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Terry Krause, Jacobs Program Manager
Terry Krause is a seasoned program manager at Jacobs with 50 years of experience in all aspects of water and wastewater treatment as well as wastewater collection and water storage and distribution systems. This experience ranges from preliminary studies through detailed engineering designs and construction related services. He has supported projects both nationally and internationally, including alternative delivery approaches such as design-build.
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Brett Jones, Jacobs Project Manager
From the drafting table to the dynamic world of civil engineering, Brett Jones has charted a course through the industry with a compass set on innovation and practical application. Currently steering the helm as the project manager for the Automated People Mover (APM) at Los Angeles International Airport, Brett is orchestrating the grand symphony of construction, testing, and commissioning with a key client, all tuned toward a grand opening slated for early 2026.
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Edwin Van Ginkel, Jacobs Senior Program Director
Jacobs Senior Program Director Edwin Van Ginkel is always trying to make an impact. Across his 30-year career, Edwin has worked almost exclusively on billion-dollar public programs, specifically in K-12 and higher education, at previous firms, his own company, and now Jacobs. Currently, he leads the program management team for the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), the largest community college district in the United States with nine individual colleges.
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Darren Milsom, Jacobs Program Manager
Darren Milsom serves as Jacobs’ program manager for the Port of San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program, a program adapting seven and a half miles of San Francisco’s Bay waterfront to be resilient to earthquakes, coastal storms and sea level rise.
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Toyin Ogunfolaju, Jacobs North America Director of Social Value and Equity
Working with clients to create social equity is a source of deep joy for Toyin Ogunfolaju. It’s not surprising as she has a deep personal connection to the issue. Having emigrated from Nigeria with her family when she was three years old, she’s witnessed firsthand the underinvestment in minority communities, in who gets prioritized and who doesn't. That experience has fueled her passion to help clients rethink the possibilities and discover a new balance.
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Aldo Ferrufino, Jacobs U.S. West Regional Market Solutions Lead and Northwest Ports and Maritime Group Lead
Jacobs U.S. West Regional Market Solutions Lead Aldo Ferrufino is a seasoned and diversified port industry leader with over 25 years of proven track record holding senior positions in multiple organizations around the world in the technology, ports & logistics, engineering and construction industries. His experience ranges from startups to multinational companies, covering the development and delivery of multi-million-dollar port and marine infrastructure, its management and operations.
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Anna James, Jacobs Project Manager and Group Lead
Anna James is a leader and engineer with more than 12 years’ experience on a variety of programs and projects including urban watermain replacement, wastewater process design and resiliency work. She has led and delivered large capital improvement programs, including several in California, and leads a team of water and wastewater staff in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Dan Robillard, Jacobs Project Manager and Senior Technologist
Using his mechanical engineering background, Project Manager and Senior Technologist Dan Robillard delivers water projects with an eye toward community impact. Whether designing wastewater technology or delivering a treatment plant, Dan enjoys making positive waves wherever he goes.
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Maricela Gomez, Jacobs Vice President of West Region Client Relations
Maricela Gomez has spent 20 years in the public and private sectors, working to transform policies that impact our daily lives and on projects that make policies a reality. Previously, Maricela served as Communications Director for BuildLACCD, a capital improvement program to build and enhance the nine colleges of the LACCD. As Jacobs' Vice President of West Region Client Relations, she looks forward to bringing all that experience and putting it towards the projects that matter, creating a vision for the future.
Latest California news
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NewsMcCarthy-Jacobs Joint Venture Secures Groundwater Desalination Project in Southern California
The McCarthy-Jacobs joint venture was selected to design and build the Torrance Groundwater Desalter Expansion, a critical component of Water Replenishment District (WRD) of Southern California’s Brackish Groundwater Reclamation Program and its larger “WIN 4 ALL” initiative. The desalination expansion project will treat salt water in the West Coast Groundwater Basin and create a more resilient local drinking water supply for more than 88,000 residents in the area – eliminating the need for imported water.
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NewsJacobs to Continue Supporting One of California’s Largest Water Reuse Projects
Jacobs has been selected by LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN) as the progressive design-build contractor for the Donald C. Tillman Advanced Water Equalization Basins, another critical part of the City of Los Angeles' long-term plans to increase recycled water production by 2035.
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NewsJacobs to Operate and Maintain Advanced Water Reuse Facility in California
Jacobs secured a 10-year contract with Soquel Creek Water District (SqCWD) to operate and maintain a new advanced water purification facility. The facility, part of SqCWD's Pure Water Soquel program, focuses on groundwater replenishment and seawater intrusion prevention in Santa Cruz County, California.
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NewsJacobs to Deliver Data-Driven Operations and Maintenance of California Wastewater Infrastructure
Jacobs will expand its portfolio of digital and data-driven solutions with a new five-year contract with Lincoln-Sewer Management District 1 Wastewater Authority (LiSWA) – a joint powers authority between the City of Lincoln and Placer County in California.
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NewsJacobs Announced as Program Manager for California Hydrogen Hub
Jacobs (NYSE:J) was selected as Program Manager for the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems (ARCHES), a public private partnership (P3) establishing a statewide clean hydrogen hub (H2) in California, one of seven national hubs announced by the White House and recently granted funding by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstration (DOE OCED).
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NewsJacobs Selected to Deliver Program Services for LAWA's Capital Improvement Program
Jacobs (NYSE:J) is one of 15 lead consultants selected by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) to provide on-call, task order-based, professional services through a Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC). The work will support initiatives relating to LAWA's Capital Improvement Program and modernizations at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Van Nuys Airport (VNY).
