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Head of PR and Marketing
Anna is a marketing communications and PR professional with a strong track record of promoting small and medium-sized businesses across many sectors.
For nine years, she drove B2B communications for the business lobbying group, London First. As Marketing and Communications Director for its subsidiary, foreign direct investment agency, Think London, she developed promotional campaigns targeting international companies of all sizes through media relations, publications and events. She achieved widespread press coverage, including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal Europe and Newsweek.
Previously, at London Weekend and Granada Television’s world-wide programme sales company, she managed all marketing, media relations and advertising and wrote and produced 100 publicity brochures.
Eight years ago, Anna set up a freelance consultancy business. Her clients have included UK Trade & Investment, The People’s Bank of China and Think London. She was assigned by Central London Partnership to manage communications and events for the ‘Legible London’ pedestrian wayfinding initiative, funded by Transport for London.
Anna was responsible for two successful business projects on behalf of Camden Council: raising the profile of jewellery start-ups in Hatton Garden and creating a communications plan to increase engagement with the local business community.
More recently, she was a PR account manager for international workplace provider, Regus. She also worked on a freelance marketing project for a newly-built international academy in Catalonia.
Anna has an honours degree in French and Spanish from London University and also speaks Catalan.
Battersea Arts Centre
We have been working over a number years on a rolling programme to upgrade the services, enhance the technical infrastructure and improve the thermal performance of the Grade II*-listed 6000m² Battersea Arts Centre, formerly Battersea Town Hall.
ARK Putney Academy
The project at ARK Putney Academy was a complete refurbishment, which aimed to create an inspiring environment suitable for modern teaching at Wandsworth’s most improved secondary school. The Grade II-listed building, designed in the early 1950s by G A Trevett of the London County Council, has been described by English Heritage as ‘perhaps the finest of the large comprehensive schools built by the London County Council architects’.
Skelly & Couch celebrates seven successful years
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 aspect of building environment design and produce their own drawings and energy models with the latest 3D BIM software, allowing the firm to give its clients an integrated, informed and well-rounded service.
Working in partnership with the renowned international architectural practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Skelly & Couch has recently started work on a conservation and refurbishment project at the Grade II-listed Farmiloe Building, once home to lead and glass merchants George Farmiloe & Sons. Built in 1868 as an exemplar of the finest Victorian architecture, the 40,000 sq ft Clerkenwell warehouse site is presently a valued film, fashion and TV location, which will be transformed into a commercial office development with retail space, while the character of its decorative interiors will be retained.
Skelly & Couch will be applying its specialist knowledge and best-practice conservation techniques to incorporate a number of energy-saving measures, including exposed thermal mass in a new-build extension with cast-in air ducts feeding perimeter fan coil units for passive heating and cooling. Imaginative use of space to extend the stunning existing atrium into the new extension will bring light deep into the building. The project has a BREEAM sustainability rating of ‘Excellent’.
In May, Skelly & Couch won the prestigious 2014 Association for Consultancy and Engineering Project Design Excellence Award (companies with up to 250 employees) for its mechanical, electrical and environmental design work at the ORTUS learning and events centre in Camberwell, the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings and the refurbished Mansel Court office building in Wimbledon.
Skelly & Couch projects won two 2014 RIBA National Awards this year: ORTUS learning and events centre in Camberwell (Duggan Morris Architects) and Drapers' Academy, Romford (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios). RIBA London Awards were given to the Arts Centre at the Lady Eleanor Holles School in Middlesex (Walters & Cohen Architects) and Oily Cart Children's Theatre in Tooting (Hawkins\Brown).
Skelly & Couch has achieved both ISO 9001 accreditation and ISO 14001 certification for environmental management.
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Anna Barlow, Head of PR and Marketing, Skelly & Couch
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How We Work
Our holistic approach to engineering means that we do not confine ourselves to specific disciplines like mechanical, electrical, or sustainability. Instead, we are engineers trained in all aspects of environmental design. We are all skilled at working in a 3D BIM environment, creating our own drawings and carrying out our own energy modelling. We believe this approach is unique within the industry and enables us to provide a service that is both efficient and characterised by its informed, well-rounded, and transparent nature.
About us
Skelly & Couch is a leading, award-winning environmental engineering practice with offices in London and Bristol.
Established in 2007 by former senior partners from Max Fordham, we have steadily grown through repeat business and referrals, and now employ a team of around 35 dedicated professionals.
Working with acclaimed architects, we co-create sustainable buildings and spaces that enhance quality of life while treading lightly on the earth.
We cross the boundaries between engineering disciplines to imagine, craft and deliver inventive, low-energy mechanical, electrical, public health and environmental solutions. Much of what we do is unseen – it’s concealed behind walls, under your feet, in the air. But our work brings life to buildings – and buildings to life.
We provide fully coordinated, sustainable designs for bespoke projects. Known for our excellence, pragmatic innovation, and commitment to sustainability, we have successfully delivered a range of high-profile projects, many of which have received architectural and environmental awards.
See our award-winning projects.
Skelly & Couch Ltd. successfully transitioned to Quality Management ISO 9001 and Environmental ISO 14001 standards in March 2017. We are certified by BSI for ISO 9001 and 14001 under certificate numbers FS 615817, EMS 615822 and for ISO 19650 Building Information Modelling (BIM). We are also Cyber Essentials Plus certified. For a look at our QMS policy please here.
