Arup's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Dai David, led the technical vision behind the rollout, working with Chief Digital & Information Officer (CDIO) Rob Greig and Arup's digital engineering teams. Together with VIKTOR's CEO Peter Madlener and co-founder Wouter Riedijk, Business Development Director Wichert Kooloos, Customer Success Lead Leonard Bonnet, and Janez Mikec from VIKTOR's Professional Services team, they have explored how to make advanced AI and automation accessible across Arup while maintaining the quality, governance and accountability that engineering work demands.
[Left image] Arup CDIO Rob Greig and VIKTOR CEO Peter Madlener sign the agreement at the VIKTOR booth, Autodesk University, Las Vegas. [Right image] The Arup and VIKTOR teams after the signing. From left to right: Arup CDIO Rob Greig, Arup CTO Dai David, VIKTOR CEO Peter Madlener, VIKTOR Business Development Director Wichert Kooloos, VIKTOR Customer Success Lead Leonard Bonnet and VIKTOR co-founder Wouter Riedijk.
From pilot to global rollout
The relationship between Arup and VIKTOR goes back further than a single pilot. Arup had already developed significant internal automation capabilities and after considering how best to scale and build on these efforts, chose to partner with VIKTOR.
Over the past year, Arup's digital engineering teams across Europe, the Americas and APAC worked side by side with VIKTOR's Professional Services team to identify, develop and validate real-world use cases, turning existing workflows into reusable apps tested in real project environments. These applications already span multiple engineering disciplines, from ground engineering and structures to acoustics and data centres, with many more use cases in development.
Scaling AI with governance built in
In this area, Arup and VIKTOR share their vision. VIKTOR provides an enterprise framework that allows organisations to govern workflows, tools and knowledge sources while maintaining oversight and traceability. For Arup, this is a key foundation for scaling AI responsibly across the firm.
Flexible workflows with interactive AI agents
Arup was a priority beta customer for VIKTOR AI Agents, which execute complex, multi-step engineering workflows end to end. Arup's engineering teams were among the first to evaluate the capability and shape how it works today.
Bringing trusted company knowledge into the AI layer
The next phase will explore how Arup's standards, best practices and engineering knowledge can be integrated into AI-powered workflows through the VIKTOR Knowledge Base. This is an area Arup and VIKTOR will continue to develop as the rollout evolves.
What's next: organization-wide rollout
The agreement starts with a structured rollout of the VIKTOR AI platform across Arup.
This will follow a structured, phased approach supported by a dedicated change programme, helping engineers across Arup adopt and scale trusted digital solutions. Through a Champions Network, tailored learning pathways and proven approaches can be shared more widely, enabling a global community of engineers who create, share and apply digital solutions across disciplines and regions.
Thank you to the teams behind the rollout
Arup's internal team drove the implementation from day one.
Special thanks go to Ingrid Jongman, Benedetta Ravicchio, Ed Eastwood, and the engineers, digital champions and change leads across Europe, Asia and the Americas who supported the rollout. On the VIKTOR side, Janez Mikec, from the Professional Services team worked closely with Arup teams throughout the programme.
The next phase builds on your work. Thank you.
Arup and VIKTOR: Scaling AI with engineers in control
Arup is a multidisciplinary design and engineering consultancy operating globally, ranked 19th in the Engineering News-Record (ENR) 2026 Top 150 Global Design Firms.
The next phase of AI in engineering depends on combining technological capability with engineering expertise, governance and trust. Arup and VIKTOR are working together to create that foundation, helping engineers apply AI responsibly and at scale.
