Search Results: 'Jacobs'

Jacobs Associates and McMillen to merge
29 October, 2014
USA - Jacobs Associates and engineering and construction company McMillen have announced their intention to merge. In a joint statement last week, a spokesman for the companies said the competencies of each would benefit the other.

Design contract awarded for new Chesapeake Bay tunnel
09 October, 2014
USA - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., announced October 7 that it was awarded a contract from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission (CBBT) to serve as the design manager for a new tunnel along the 23-mile (37km) toll crossing at Thimble Shoals Channel between Virginia Beach, Virginia, and the Delmarva Peninsula.

How the west was won
27 June, 2014
Tunnelling work is as diverse and plentiful as the geography in the West Coast.

Obstacles to the underground
27 June, 2014
William Edgerton of Jacobs Associates, and chair of the Underground Construction Association, discusses barriers to the advancement of the underground industry in North America.

Weather the winter
24 April, 2014
Construction started on the light rail tunnel going through downtown Ottawa this fall. The project as a whole is one of the biggest construction undertakings for the city and work has coincided with one of the coldest winters on record. Nicole Robinson reports on the early stages of tunnel excavation.