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The expansion of the metro network in Cairo required adherence to environmental and social safeguards.
A government initiative to connect Kenyan households to the national electricity grid.
Birkdale is a coastal locality in the City of Redland, Queensland Australia. Jacobs was engaged by Redland City Council to provide social impact and social value measures for input into the Master Plan for the 62-hectare Birkdale Community Precinct.
The Edinburgh City Centre Transformation Program is a multi-million-dollar investment to improve community, sustainability, and cultural life. It is an ambitious plan for a vibrant and people-focused capital city centre, one that creates attractive, liveable public spaces, with sustainable and active travel made as easy as possible and with people’s overall health, wellbeing, and happiness at centre-stage.
Reform to India’s insolvency proceedings and recovery rates has driven India’s 18 rank increase on governance measures in InfraCompass.
Reform to Azerbaijan’s insolvency framework has driven the country’s 27 rank increase on regulatory frameworks in InfraCompass.
The cost and time to establish a business in Rwanda has seen considerable improvements following several reforms.
Argentina has made great strides to improve infrastructure planning and governance settings.
Sweden has undertaken reforms to the principal legislations that regulate public procurement in the country, which has resulted in Sweden’s 48 rank increase on procurement measures in InfraCompass.
Since 2017, Japan has worked towards making public procurement more sustainable, transparent, fair and in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Between 2016 and 2019, private infrastructure investment in Pakistan increased by approximately USD 5.7 billion, totalling almost USD 22 billion since 2010.
Fiscal prudence and GDP growth have allowed Greece to improve government debt to sustainable levels, with credit agencies upgrading the country’s outlook.
Guinea has taken notable initiatives to improve its financial markets.
Belo Horizonte faced a shortage of school buildings and only had the resources to meet approximately 35% of demand. A bundling public-private partnership (PPP) approach was used to finance, build, and equip new schools, with non-academic services operated under a PPP with a 20-year concession period.
Sydney Metro Northwest is Australia’s first fully automated driverless metro railway. A 36 km link servicing Sydney’s north-west, it includes eight new railway stations and an upgrade to five existing stations. The Operations, Trains and Systems (OTS) component of the project was delivered under a PPP contract.
In 2012, the Hong Kong SAR Government proposed to construct a new 12-storey, circa 59,000 m 2 hospital in Tin Shui Wai to meet a growing demand for health services. The hospital was a complex project owing to the relatively tight timeframe, and modifications that evolved from the specialised user requirements.
Ohio State University's energy efficiency program aimed to modernise the 490-building campus. OSU entered into a concession agreement with Ohio State Energy Partners (OSEP), which provided a USD1.165 billion up-front lease payment to handle the university’s energy management and a network expansion over a 50-year concession period.
Grand Paris Express is a metro rail project being delivered by Société du Grand Paris (SGP) that will expand the Paris Metro network to approximately double its size.
The Metrolinx Transit Program is a multi-billion-dollar endeavour, with over CAD 16.0 billion committed to date. The program was initiated in 2008 with a visionary multimodal , long-range , 25-year regional transportation plan called The Big Move. The program was further articulated in May 2013 with the announcement of a comprehensive investment strategy and became the largest public investment in Canadian history to date.
In response to a 2014 Productivity Commission Inquiry into Public Infrastructure, the Australian Government and state and territory governments carried out a pilot cost benchmarking for road projects through the Bureau for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) in co-operation with state and territory road agencies.
