Punch Consulting Engineers joins Cowi

Worldwide consulting group Cowi has acquired Punch Consulting Engineers. The transfer creates a mixed headcount of greater than 300 workers throughout Europe.

Based in Limerick in 1973, Punch Consulting Engineers has since grown into one in every of Eire’s main multidisciplinary engineering consultancies. The enterprise has workplaces in Dublin, Limerick, Cork and Galway, in addition to Glasgow and Macclesfield.

In the meantime, Cowi is a world consulting group, specialising in engineering, environmental science and economics, with headquarters situated in Lyngby, Denmark. First launched in 1930, the agency has since been concerned in additional than 50,000 tasks in 175 international locations and has roughly 7,300 workers, together with engineers, biologists, geologists, economists, surveyors, anthropologists, sociologists and designers

Cowi has lately been seeking to develop its presence in Eire – opening an workplace in Dublin in 2025. Following its involvement in main tasks supporting Eire’s inexperienced transition, together with district heating and offshore wind, it has additional expanded capability with the transfer for Punch.

Cowi government vp UK and worldwide Andy Sloan stated, “The acquisition reinforces our strategic dedication to the nation’s inexperienced future and sustainable growth. We’ll additionally be capable of place ourselves for development to over 300 workers, empowering a stronger future-ready engineering group in Eire.”

The transfer can also be billed to create new alternatives for workers throughout the mixed enterprise, giving groups entry to wider worldwide experience, bigger and extra advanced tasks. Following the acquisition, Punch Consulting Engineers will turn into a part of Cowi’s UK and Eire enterprise and can be often called Punch Consulting Engineers, a Cowi firm.

Punch managing director Tim Murnane added, “We’re very excited for Punch to turn into a part of the Cowi Group at a seminal time within the growth of our nation. Responding to the unprecedented stage of infrastructure funding deliberate by our authorities, requires the perfect international experience and the perfect native data to make sure we ship for our shoppers and nation.”