Jacobs Engineering Group
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Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC), a publicly traded company with annual revenues approaching $7 billion, provides professional technical services. Headquartered in Pasadena, CA, Jacobs offers support to industrial, commercial, and government clients across multiple markets. Services include scientific and specialty consulting as well as all aspects of engineering and construction, along with operations and maintenance.
Jacobs' global presence includes more than 60 major offices in over 15 countries, with operations in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, India, Australia, and Asia.
Jacobs Engineering serves industrial and commercial clients and the government. The company provides a full spectrum of preconstruction and construction services as well as facilities management and consulting across the building industry and the defense, energy, infrastructure and technology sectors.
The primary market sectors are: Aerospace and Defense, Automotive and Industrial, Buildings, Chemicals and Basic Resources, Consumer Products, Forest Products, Infrastructure, Oil and Gas, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology, Refining, and Technology
The largest part of the business with over $2.4 billion in revenues in 2005 are the preconstruction services which include among others planning, market and configuration studies, energy optimization, environmental permitting, architectural design and process and engineering design. This service category amounts to 43.8% of the total revenues in 2005, and records a small decline from 45.7% in 2001.
