Just north of Jacobsen's Multi-Agency State Government Office Building (MASGOB) project is a facility called Services for the Blind & Visually Impaired. Students who attend the facility live in subsidized housing located nearby... but being close didn’t make it an easy commute. There was no sidewalk to the school, so the students were climbing through a hole cut in the fence and crossing a field­—which is unsafe for any pedestrian, let alone those who are visually impaired!

When the MASGOB project team learned about the dangerous situation, they did something about it: Within a week they poured a sidewalk from the housing complex to the facility free of charge, giving the students safe access.

"A big part of the Jacobsen philosophy is to exceed the expectations of our clients and coworkers," explained MASGOB Project Manager Paul Lawrence. "But that philosophy extends to our communities, too. When we found out about the unsafe situation at the blind school next door to our project, we saw an opportunity to help and we acted on it. That's the Jacobsen way."