Danish engineering consultancy Ramboll has entered a collaborative partnership with Acutro, a UK specialist in building performance improvement and predictive, data-led maintenance.

The partnership brings together Ramboll’s engineering expertise and Acutro’s digital building intelligence capabilities, creating synergies that support innovation, learning and value creation for both organisations and their clients.

The collaboration enables Ramboll to explore building intelligence tools that can strengthen its digital design capability, while providing Acutro with the opportunity to apply and evolve its platform across complex, real-world projects. Together, the partners aim to help clients make more informed decisions about performance, lifecycle value and operational risk.

The multi-year relationship provides Ramboll with access to Acutro’s cloud-native platform, creating opportunities to integrate real-time performance analytics, predictive insights and digital asset management into selected design and delivery workflows. In parallel, Acutro benefits from close collaboration with Ramboll’s multidisciplinary teams, gaining insights into design, delivery and operational problems across global markets.

This shared approach allows both parties to evaluate how digital building intelligence can support more resilient engineering, better asset optimisation and improved long-term building outcomes.

Potential benefits of the partnership include enhanced insight into performance outcomes to inform early-stage design and operational decision-making, and improved ability to advise clients on lifecycle cost, risk and optimisation strategies. Integrated digital capabilities should support sustainability, compliance and reporting needs.

The partnership should also expand capacity to support owners and operators managing complex portfolios in regulated markets. It could create opportunities for both organisations to differentiate through performance-led, data-driven offerings.

“Ramboll is committed to advancing our digital capabilities in ways that strengthen our advisory, design and delivery outcomes,” said Frank Schwartz, director at Ramboll. “Our partnership with Acutro creates a collaborative environment where engineering expertise and real-time data come together. By working closely, we can test new approaches, learn from live performance insights and jointly develop solutions that support better design decisions and long-term asset performance.”

Jevon Hughes, CEO of Acutro, added: “There is growing interest in buildings that can adapt and improve over time. This partnership reflects a shared ambition to help clients move from static design information towards living, data-enabled assets that perform better throughout their lifecycle.”

Initial activity will focus on selected projects in the UK, with the potential for broader adoption based on demonstrated value, client interest and emerging opportunities across Ramboll’s global buildings practice.

Ramboll (www.ramboll.com) is an engineering, architecture and consultancy firm founded in Denmark. With more than 18,000 experts in 35 countries, it creates sustainability across buildings, transport, water, environment, health, energy, architecture and landscape.

Acutro (acutro.net) is an operating system for buildings, delivering real-time intelligence, automation and predictive insights across the entire property lifecycle.