
Catherine O’Brien
PUNCH Consulting Engineers
precast operations director, and technical lead, Rosslare Europort
Catherine O’Brien
Catherine O’Brien BEng (Hons), CEng, MICE, MIEI is a Chartered Engineer with over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry.
She started her career in London before joining PUNCH as a senior structural engineer in 1998. In 2012 she joined ByrneLooby as an Associate, before returning to PUNCH as a Technical Director in 2018. She was appointed precast operations director in 2023.
Catherine has led projects throughout Ireland, the UK and the Middle and Far East, and has significant experience in marine and microtunnelling infrastructure and building sectors.
Catherine is the marine sector lead at PUNCH and has led the Rosslare Europort design team for the last 4 years. She has overall responsibility for the delivery of the civil, structural and geotechnical services to the Client and has seen the project through the masterplanning, planning and tendering stages as PUNCH technical lead.
She has continued her input to date leading the PUNCH Technical Advisor team reporting to the Client during construction.