MEP consultancy website built to match a bold new brand
Tournay Godfrey are an MEP and sustainability consultancy based in Brighton. If you’re not familiar with MEP, it stands for mechanical, electrical, and public health engineering — essentially, they’re the people who make sure buildings actually work. Heating, cooling, lighting, plumbing, energy efficiency. The invisible stuff that matters.
They came to me needing a website to match a brand refresh they’d just had done by Toop Studio. The branding work was already complete — logo, colour palette, typography, guidelines — so my job was to bring it to life online.
The brief
Most engineering firms look… like engineering firms. Stock photos of hard hats, blue and grey colour schemes, imagery of wires and pipes. Tournay Godfrey wanted something different. They’re a modern consultancy focused on sustainable design and digital construction, and they wanted their website to reflect that.
Toop Studio had already solved this at the branding level. Instead of the predictable green that sustainability companies default to, they’d gone with a bold red. The logo uses a square and swirl motif — the square representing a building’s structure, the swirl representing the energy systems inside. It’s clever without being gimmicky.
My job was to translate all of that into a website that worked as well as it looked.
The build
Working from established brand guidelines is actually one of my favourite types of project. The creative direction is already locked in, so I can focus on structure, usability, and making sure the site performs properly.
Design implementation
The design called for strong red and gold header and footer panels contrasting with clean white content sections. We kept the layout simple and functional — engineering clients are typically busy people who want to find information quickly, not scroll through animations.
One element I particularly liked was the background graphic Toop had developed — a cropped version of the swirl from the logo that fades into coloured panels. It gives pages visual interest without cluttering the content.
WordPress development
We built on WordPress so the team at Tournay Godfrey could manage their own content going forward. They regularly work on new projects and needed to be able to update their portfolio without calling me every time.
Working with designers
I’ve done a few projects now where a design agency handles the branding and I build the website. It works well when everyone’s clear on their role. Toop provided detailed guidelines and mockups, I asked questions where things weren’t specified (how should this behave on mobile? what happens when this text runs long?), and we ended up with something that matched their vision without compromising on functionality.
If you’re a designer looking for someone to develop your designs, or a client who’s had branding done elsewhere and needs a developer — this is exactly the kind of collaboration I enjoy.
The result
Tournay Godfrey now have a website that positions them as what they are: a modern, forward-thinking consultancy that doesn’t look like every other engineering firm. The bold colour choices and clean layout set them apart, while the structure makes it easy for architects and developers to find what they need.
