Supporting member cities around the world
PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Jacobs
Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it has joined 100
Resilient Cities, pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation (100RC),
as a Platform Partner to give urban centers across the world access to
tools to help them plan and implement citywide resilience strategies and
establish measures for success.
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Working with 100RC, Jacobs is providing Resilience Sprint Start, an
intensive three-day workshop that helps city government participants
develop an action-oriented, results-based implementation plan for the
built and natural environment, as well as planning and management
initiatives that have already been identified in a city’s resilience
strategy. As part of the agreement, Jacobs is joining 100RC’s network of
Platform Partners – a group of specialized organizations from the
public, private, academic, and non-profit sectors that provide critical
tools and services to help 100RC member cities better adapt to the
shocks and stresses of our world and transform them into opportunities
for growth.
In making the announcement, Jacobs President Buildings and
Infrastructure Bob Pragada stated, “We are absolutely delighted to be
working with 100RC to harness our global expertise in sustainability,
environment, infrastructure, and resilience planning to help cities’
develop the proper tools and the organizational support to achieve their
resilience building goals.”
100 Resilient Cities President Michael Berkowitz added, “In an
increasingly complex and challenging world, cities need to leverage
expertise from companies like Jacobs to withstand the shocks and
stresses of the 21st century. By providing Resilience Sprint
Starts to our network, Jacobs is leading by example, and is helping to
build a global resilience movement. The Resilience Sprint Starts will
build off of existing planning efforts to keep momentum moving forward,
and inspire action towards realizing resilience goals.”
100RC is dedicated to helping cities around the world become more
resilient to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a
growing part of the 21st century. 100RC supports the adoption and
incorporation of a view of resilience that includes not just the shocks
– earthquakes, fires, floods, etc. – but also the stresses that weaken
the fabric of a city on a day-to-day or cyclical basis. Examples of
these stresses include high unemployment; an overtaxed or inefficient
public transportation system; endemic violence; or chronic food and
water shortages. By addressing both the shocks and the stresses, a city
becomes more able to respond to adverse events, and is overall better
able to deliver basic functions in both good times and bad, to all
populations.
Cities in the 100RC network are provided with the resources necessary to
develop a roadmap to resilience along four main pathways:
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Financial and logistical guidance for establishing an innovative new
position in city government, a Chief
Resilience Officer, who will lead the city’s resilience efforts;
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Expert support for development of a robust resilience strategy;
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Access to solutions, service providers, and partners
from the private, public and NGO sectors who can help
them develop and implement their resilience strategies; and
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Membership of a global network of member cities who can learn from and
help each other.
Through these actions, 100RC aims not only to help individual cities
become more resilient, but will facilitate the building of a global
practice of resilience among governments, NGOs, the private sector, and
individual citizens.
For more information about 100 Resilient Cities contact Maxwell Young myoung@100RC.org.
Jacobs is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of
full-spectrum technical, professional and construction services for
industrial, commercial and government organizations globally. The
company employs 50,000 people and operates in more than 30 countries
around the world. For more information, visit www.jacobs.com.
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particular the discussions contained under Items 1 - Business, 1A - Risk
Factors, 3 - Legal Proceedings, and 7 - Management's Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. We do not
undertake to update any forward-looking statements made herein.
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Source: Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.