We’re dreaming big and tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
Our differentiating capabilities in the advanced manufacturing market include advanced design and engineering in the electrification ecosystem, data centers and semiconductor manufacturing – deployed through a global integrated delivery platform.
For more than 70 years, we’ve rallied the best teams on the planet to challenge today and reimagine tomorrow. Now, our consultants, architects, engineers and technologists are continuing the story, constantly adding innovations alongside best practice to solve our clients’ most complex problems.
We plan, select sites, design, engineer, oversee construction and complete operations for clients around the world. We’re committed to building a better world for humanity. This simple shared purpose aligns our people, plans and projects.
We dream big. We innovate at speed. We remain accountable for end-to-end delivery. And we always find a way, however ‘impossible’ the challenge. Yet it’s pragmatism and expertise that keeps us on track, guided by the highest standards and united by a laser-like dedication to solve our clients’ problems.
As our clients keep pace with global trends – from climate change and energy resiliency, to tightening regulation to accelerated construction schedules – our integrated project delivery model ensures they are always one step ahead. We are turnkey project-delivery partners for the world’s advanced facilities – offering full-service engineering, procurement and construction management solutions that give our clients greater control, reduce risk and increase value for money.
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# 1
in data centers, electronic assembly, manufacturing and semiconductors (Engineering News-Record, 2024)
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1 K+
experienced data center teammates globally
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30
years in the top 10 semiconductor manufacturers for 30 years
What we do
Together with our clients, we're building a better world for tomorrow.
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Data Centers
Our history is long when it comes to delivering sustainable, resilient data centers.
We understand the need for a global network of expertise and knowledge to design for scalability, adapt for market demand and innovate to remain several steps ahead. We create impactful solutions so you can succeed – not just today but into tomorrow.
For over 30 years, high-technology, mission critical and energy efficient designs have been at the core of our practice. We‘re the global leader in providing integrated planning, architecture, engineering, project and construction management and commissioning for data center facilities.
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Electronics
Electronics is changing the world at breakneck speed, but without the most impressive factory sites, potential is limited. Our team designs, models, analyses and enables data centers and facilities which make the electronics revolution spin faster.
Four in five of the world’s computers are built in facilities designed by our team. We’ve served the top ten semiconductor manufacturers for 30 years. As the leader in our field, we’re proud to set the standard for facility modelling, industrial engineering, cleanroom architecture and process – plus associated electrical and mechanical systems.
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Manufacturing
Whenever manufacturers look to incorporate new technologies or expand into unfamiliar markets, they call us. Why?
Partly, because of our embedded, hard-won knowledge: Our team elevates our clients by delivering cost-effective and transformative projects to the consumer goods and products, metals, pulp and paper, battery manufacturing and specialty chemical and industrial fermentation markets. We understand that the success of our clients is about more than well-designed facilities; it’s about well-designed strategies tailored for every market and every location.
Add to this our automated tools and simulated integration processes, which minimize costs and maximize value: Our technology-driven services span from virtual simulation tools for process optimization during front-end design, to custom machine solutions that convert designs into working manufacturing systems.
From process design consulting to seamlessly integrated engineering, procurement and construction management services, our people deliver innovative solutions for the world’s most challenging manufacturing projects.
Explore our projects
We partner with some of the world’s largest providers in the advanced technology industries, data centers, electronics, semiconductors and specialized manufacturing. From climate change to tightening regulation to accelerated schedules – our integrated project delivery model ensures they are always one step ahead.
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Intel Ocotillo Campus
By making fab engineering more cost effective, reliable and repeatable, Jacobs is supporting Intel’s goals to increase domestic chipmaking capacity, end the semiconductor shortage, meet global demand and create a more balanced, resilient global supply chain.
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SINES DC Campus
The $9.4 billion (€8.5 billion) SINES DC Campus developed by Start Campus is set to deliver a 1.2 GW IT facility with industry-leading sustainable credentials. Powered entirely by renewable energy, the campus features a state-of-the-art seawater cooling system, that leverages the ocean as a natural heat sink, achieving a Water Usage Effectiveness (“WUE”) of 0 — addressing a critical resource challenge faced by data centers worldwide. To help make this 100% renewable campus a reality, we provided site due diligence, master planning, architecture/engineering design and energy infrastructure development services.
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Singapore Innovation Center
From site selection and planning approvals to project completion, we led the entirety of design, engineering and construction management for this 335,000-square-foot urban, state-of-the-art, greenfield research center, which houses approximately a 50-50 mix of office and lab space as well as manufacturing pilot process suites and retail space.
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Sinnovate
We serve as designer and program manager for Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) project to create a greenfield technology hub on approximately 41,000 square meters (10 acres) of land to support the country’s growing demand for high-technology talent.
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OCP Data Center
We delivered a highly resilient and efficient data center for OCP Group, one of the largest global exporter of phosphates. In a location with a hot, arid climate, a scarcity of water and few existing data centers, our team provided OCP with a flexible facility that meets the needs of their organization, their customers and partners serving Morocco and the African continent.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Utah Data Center
As design partner in a design-build joint venture, we provided architecture and engineering design services for the $1.2 billion Utah Data Center. With innovative technology and energy efficiency features, the facility is d signed and constructed to achieve LEED Silver certification. In addition, our team maximized the use of Building Information Modeling to facilitate collaboration and coordination of all project elements throughout design and construction.
Meet some of our team
Read more about the talent who make it happen every day.
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Warren van Nus, Electric Vehicles Leader
With a background in automotive engineering and a passion for sustainable transportation, Warren van Nus uses his insights to drive innovation and efficiency to help our Electric Vehicle (EV) clients bring new products to market. Warren joined Jacobs in May 2024 as an EV assembly leader. Warren worked in several roles across the automotive and manufacturing industries before joining our team. He’s also worked on product manufacturing and research and development projects. He’s inspired by the future of the EV market and is eager to work with clients and other leaders to shape the industry and provide benefits for generations to come.
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Bob Haley, Vice President of Data Centers
With a passion for emerging technology, Vice President of Data Centers Bob Haley is eager to partner with clients around the world to explore the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Bob joined Jacobs in 2024 and is working closely with our teams to continue expanding our portfolio and developing our talent to keep pace with industry needs.
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David Krick, Global Director - Electronics
David Krick assists clients in the semiconductor, data center and renewable energy industries. He uses his experience in semiconductor processing and high-tech manufacturing to help Jacobs' subject matter experts develop optimized facility design solutions for owners of some of the world's largest and most technically advanced logic, memory, and foundry manufacturing fabs. He is also Jacobs' solar photovoltaic process technology expert, and has worked with manufacturers and equipment suppliers across a wide range of thin-film (silicon, CdTe, CIGS) and wafer-based silicon technologies.
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Debbie Seibold Egeland, Environmental Solutions Director
For Debbie Seibold Egeland it was pretty simple — a love of nature and math made a career in environmental engineering the obvious choice. Today Debbie is an Environmental Solutions Director based in Singapore and leads a team of 300+ sustainability professionals across the Asia-Pacific region. She is responsible for bringing Jacobs’ global specialists together to solve the most complex environmental challenges.
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Eric Boschert, Battery Process Subject Matter Expert
Eric Boschert, a battery process Subject Matter Expert (SME) at Jacobs, is leveraging his manufacturing background to fuel his excitement and curiosity for the battery industry. He blends knowledge from various engineering fields to help our clients produce the next generation of emerging technologies.
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Andy Solberg, Global Solutions Director for Decarbonization
Andy Solberg is Jacobs’ Global Market Solutions Director for Decarbonization within Energy and Power where he focuses on solutions that enable resilient 24x7 carbon free energy to data centers, manufacturing facilities, water treatment facilities, transportation systems, buildings and more. He has over 27 years of experience in net zero building design, manufacturing facility design, energy master planning, system simulation, and implementation of renewable energy and energy storage.
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Sam Larsen, Vice President, Growth & Sales, Advanced Manufacturing
Sam Larsen brings a breadth of consulting, project management, and business development experience to our data center business. He is the relationship builder both internally and externally, connecting the dots of our broad Jacobs network to solve our clients’ most critical challenges.
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Robert Mehall, Architect
Born with a natural curiosity and a gift for problem solving, Robert Mehall is one of Jacobs’ architects. Whether he conceives the initial design or collaborates one-on-one with our clients, Robert leverages communication and collaboration to bring the greatest potential of a project to fruition. With a proven track record of success and a passion for pushing the boundaries of what is possible, Robert continues to make a lasting impact on the world of architecture, data center design, and other markets where technically complex buildings are delivered though design excellence.
Read our latest news
From new project wins and milestones to reports, podcasts and industry insights, discover what we’re up to.
From our newsroom
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NewsJacobs Awarded CG Semi Contract for Engineering Design of New OSAT Facility in India
Jacobs has been appointed by CG Semi Private Limited, a Joint Venture between CG, Renesas Electronics Corporation, and Stars Microelectronics (Thailand) Public Co. Ltd., for engineering design of CG Semi's new Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility at Sanand, Gujrat in India.
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PodcastsCloud Condos: Co-location for Hyperscale
In this episode of If/When, we talked with several of Jacobs’ Data Center subject matter experts about their new design concept for Cloud Condos, which brings together the best of both Hyperscale and Colocation data center design. This plug-and-play concept offers both flexibility and scalability while maximizing speed to market for data center clients. Our featured guests include Kenneth J. Kutsmeda – Global Technology Leader for Jacobs Mission Critical; Paul D'Onofrio - Discipline Lead – Architecture, Jacobs; and David Seger - Senior Mechanical Engineer, Mission Critical Technologist, Jacobs.
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NewsIntel and Jacobs: Solving the Global Semiconductor Shortage
By making fab engineering more cost effective, reliable and repeatable, Jacobs is supporting Intel’s goals to increase domestic chipmaking capacity, end the semiconductor shortage, meet global demand and create a more balanced, resilient global supply chain.
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NewsA View on the Future of Architecture for Data Centers: A Q&A with Robert Mehall
As one of our key design principals, Robert Mehall focuses on comprehensive design excellence, business development and project execution. In this Q&A, he shares his take on the latest data center trends as it relates to architectural design, how data and technology are changing how we deliver design and more about his game-changing work in data centers.
Our insights
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Driving Sustainability in Data Centers
As the world generates more data than ever, reducing the environmental footprint of power-hungry data centers is becoming increasingly important. This paper sheds light on the challenge and identifies key factors to consider in reducing their impact.
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In the media
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