The spectacular, timber-roofed swimming pool at Alfriston School, completed recently by Duggan Morris Architects and leading building environment and engineering firm Skelly & Couch, is the Structural Winner in the 2014 UK Wood Awards.

The stunning ORTUS learning and events centre, for which Skelly & Couch carried out full mechanical, electrical and environmental design, has won the prestigious 2014 British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA) Building Project of the Year (up to £10 million) for Duggan Morris Architects. To date, ORTUS has scooped no fewer than six major awards, including a 2014 RIBA National prize. 

Skelly & Couch, the award-winning building environment and services engineering firm, is welcoming 250 architect clients and other close associates at the iconic Farmiloe Building on Thursday 18 September to celebrate its seventh birthday. Formed originally as an LLP in 2007, Skelly & Couch became a limited company in April this year. The innovative, design-led practice, based in London’s Kentish Town and run by Directors Mark Skelly, Tristan Couch and Mark Maidment, has grown steadily over the past seven years through mainly repeat business - and has tripled its staff team to 30. All its engineers are trained in every…