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For Breda Ryan, challenging today is about eliminating transactional waste and making smarter decisions underpinned and informed by data. Breda believes that too often in the project controls discipline we repeat, repeat, repeat – she is passionate about making time for her, and her team, to create an automated controls environment where data becomes a tool to deliver better project outcomes for society.

“For me project controls bring calm and order to chaos. They enable us to make better decisions and ultimately deliver better outcomes. It gives me enormous pleasure to knit together all of the pieces of the delivery jigsaw so that everyone knows what’s happening and are able to proactively manage delivery of iconic infrastructure projects.”

Breda Ryan

Head of Program Controls, Major Projects and Programs Europe, Jacobs

Breda is a highly skilled program and project controls industry leader with more than 25 years’ experience, specializing in end-to-end lifecycle management and control of capital projects predominately in the regulated aviation, transportation, nuclear and energy sectors. She is an advocate for change, innovation and efficiency in project controls.

After more than a decade in client project controls roles at Heathrow Terminal 5 and Terminal 2 in the U.K., she joined Jacobs to set up the program management office and program controls function in multi-partner integrated client teams for Jacobs.

Breda’s passion to improve the industry is exemplified by her 18 years’ volunteering for the Association for Project Management, British Standards Institution and the Data Analytics Taskforce to improve project controls across the infrastructure sector.