Our Services

PUNCH Consulting Engineers have successfully delivered and are continuing to deliver a wide variety of Office Developments in Dublin City and throughout the country. Our experience covers all types of structural forms including concrete, steel and composite office types in both the public and private sectors. Our office experience covers brownfield sites that are fully demolished and reconstructed, greenfield sites where new office developments are constructed and full refurbishments of existing office buildings and upgrading and renovating to current construction standards.

We have been involved in many office projects in built up urban areas and have vast experience in dealing with project and site issues associated with City Centre developments. We specialise in underground structures below office developments such as car parks, plant rooms and habitable spaces if required. This is hugely important in City Centre sites where maximising floor areas are key whilst achieving the requirements of the clients with regards to car parking and plant. PUNCH Consulting Engineers have extensive experience working on projects adjacent to Luas and Irish Rail assets and fully understand the requirements and processes involved with these bodies on such projects.

Over the years, PUNCH have successfully delivered a broad range of education-related projects. Our experience covers primary, secondary and third level facilities in the public and private sectors, with projects completed on behalf of the Department of Education & Skills, as well as Vocational Education Committees (VECs) and private schools. We have also worked on Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects.  We have worked on all of the main university campuses, with many of our projects winning awards.

Our vast experience in dealing with the unique project, site and building issues that commonly occur on school projects enables us to deliver engineered solutions on new or live sites. Our expertise includes dealing with decanting and phasing of projects, designing to the DoES guidelines and providing robust solutions to current Building Regulations, while respecting and delivering on the architectural design intents.

Through our involvement with hundreds of projects of all sizes in the area of healthcare construction, both in Ireland and overseas, we have gained a reputation as a provider of a quality civil and structural engineering service to our clients. , Our projects include public and private hospitals (acute and non-acute), clinics, primary healthcare facilities, nursing homes, hospices, rehabilitation units and mental health facilities.

We understand the pivotal role that the civil and structural engineer can play in the development of complex modern healthcare projects, and how we can provide innovative solutions to allow the architectural intent and the mechanical and electrical services solution to be facilitated and integrated in a logical and cost-effective structure. We also have experience of the many complexities of healthcare construction design, such as designing bunkers for radiotherapy machines, or new operating theatres or diagnostic facilities containing highly sensitive equipment.

We have worked on many landmark hotels throughout Ireland and the UK. These have included one off luxury hotels such as the five star Adare Manor and Resort (host of the next Ryder Cup) and chains of hotels such as for the Dalata Group. We consider that, successful hotels are those that provide a quality product, with highly trained staff, who deliver a top-class customer service experience. In that regard we feel the hotel industry reflects our own business offering, where the old-fashioned fundamentals of customer service coupled with a high quality offering lead to success.

We have also been involved in the development of many sports and leisure facilities, from small club houses and local pitch developments to large scale sports centres and major stadia developments. The pinnacle of our work to date in this area was the completion of the iconic Thomond Park Rugby Stadium. This was especially pleasing to us as the company was founded in Limerick in 1973 by Michael Punch, himself a proud Limerick man and Munster Rugby supporter. Sports & leisure developments often stretch the ability of the structural engineer, in that the project may require long clear spans, exposed structural skeletons, or unusual geometry to make them work. They may also have to operate under harsh environmental conditions, such as within a swimming pool environment. All these are challenges we relish at PUNCH and our portfolio of work demonstrates our ability to deliver successful results for our clients.

PUNCH is at the forefront of the design delivery of residential projects at all scales throughout Ireland. Our portfolio ranges from public to private projects and includes major developments such as the €500 million Beacon South Quarter Project and the €182 million Shanganagh Castle Residential project for the Land Development Agency/Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council – the first LDA project developed in Ireland; to smaller developments like the RIAI award winning Southhill Older Person Housing for Limerick Co. Co. Our reputation is for getting things done with sustained commitment throughout the project to provide a service to our Clients’ that achieves that critical balance between creative and cost-effective buildable solutions.

PUNCH Consulting Engineers have an established team delivering complex manufacturing projects for national and multi-national clients since our foundation. Our client base includes companies such as Analog Devices, Facebook, Regeneron, Stryker, Lufthansa and Rusal Auganish amongst others. Our expert division specialise in project delivery in the high tech and industrial sectors. This team of engineers understands the complexities of these projects and the fundamental drivers of our clients operations. Items such as service integration, plant servicing requirements, vibration, and production control, separate these projects from the more traditional building projects which are driven predominately by their architectural design . Our completed projects include clean rooms, central utility buildings, site infrastructure works, office buildings, laboratories, research and development facilities and tool move and hook up projects.

PUNCH are specialists in the design and procurement of logistics and industrial developments through all stages. Given the scale of buildings associated with Distribution Centres & Logistics Warehousing, cost control and certainty are fundamental key elements. Understanding the brief and working in conjunction with the architect to produce a scheme that works for the end user whilst maximising flexibility and economy of design are essential to the delivery of a successful project. We have provided complete consultancy services on a wide range of global logistics related projects over the years. PUNCH have ensured that we have kept at the forefront of the latest logistics design approaches to meet the ever-changing global environment by utilising new technologies and engineering advancements. We have experience in ambient, chilled and frozen logistics buildings including manual and automated racking and sortation. Our knowledge is backed up with established relationships and experience of logistic service providers including automation systems, racking, sprinklers, warehouse management systems, MHE equipment and battery charging operations. The service that we provide is based on providing excellent and economical design solutions through the right mix of experience and enthusiasm in order to optimise the design.

Over the years PUNCH has been involved in many high-profile retail developments including Beacon South Quarter, Ferrybank Kilkenny and Scotch Hall Drogheda. We recognise the importance of a flexible layout to accommodate the changing demands of the end users and clients. We understand how retail developments should be future-proofed insofar as is economically justified and also ensuring that the build quality is maintained at the highest possible standards, so that our clients can rely on their investment into the future. With the scale of buildings associated with shopping centres and retail, cost control and certainty are fundamental key elements. Understanding the brief and working in conjunction with the architect to produce a scheme that works for the end user, whilst maximising flexibility and economy of design are essential to the delivery of a successful project.

PUNCH Consulting Engineers experience in Marine & Energy offers an integrated project management and engineering service to our clients.  Initially PUNCH provided project management and marine engineering services and since then we have continued to grow and expand our offering to the Oil and Gas, Petro-Chemical, Electricity Generation, Leisure, Tourism and Fishing industries on a national and international stage. PUNCH has worked on a wide range of projects, varying in scope, size and complexity. These include large scale commercial jetties, leisure marinas and oil terminals (tank farms). We also have experience in the design and implementation of marine solutions including gravity marine structures such as at the award winning Cill Rónáin Harbour Development, suspended piled marine structures, armour-stone breakwaters and revetments, sheet piled structures, underwater concreting and pre-casting for marine concrete, maintenance dredging and capital dredging.