A three-storey commercial building in central Baghdad, delivered under a single design-supply-installation contract. The client wanted a contemporary, dust-tolerant glazed elevation that would read as one composed plane from the street while surviving Baghdad's 50 °C summers, sand-dust seasons and short winter storms.
A three-storey commercial building in central Baghdad, delivered under a single design-supply-installation contract. The client wanted a contemporary, dust-tolerant glazed elevation that would read as one composed plane from the street while surviving Baghdad's 50 °C summers, sand-dust seasons and short winter storms.
Each chapter records a decision the next project team can evaluate: intent, performance, production and site delivery.
The brief was to turn a standard concrete-frame commercial shell into a recognisable address on the street. We resolved the elevation as a full-height stick curtain wall — factory-fabricated mullions and transoms, site-glazed with double-silver low-E laminated units, detailed for pressure-equalised drainage against Baghdad's violent but brief winter rain.
Climate drove every specification: framing and pressings carried a PVDF coat for dust-abrasion resistance; warm-edge spacers cut condensation risk through the air-conditioning season; and every horizontal head was designed to shed sand rather than trap it.
Because this was a delivered installation, the contract separated supply warranty from installation warranty from the outset. Our project team mobilised with partner crews, set the grid off the structural survey, and sequenced bay-by-bay erection around the tenant-fit-out programme.
The facade handed over on programme. From the street the glazing reads as a single calm plane; behind it, the maintenance team works from a documented panel-by-panel manual — every unit replaceable from inside, without scaffolding.
Design, Supply & Installation
Middle East context: solar exposure, dust, drainage, finish durability and local review responsibilities are coordinated project by project.
1 400 m² stick curtain wall envelope delivered design-supply-installation under a single accountable contract
Supply and installation warranties issued as separate instruments — responsibility never ambiguous
PVDF-coated, pressure-equalised envelope engineered for 50 °C heat, sand-dust and brief winter storms
Engineering evidence package reviewed by the appointed local third party
“One contract, one crew, one handover date — the facade went up and stayed up.”
— Owner's Representative, Baghdad Commercial Facade
Supplied project photography is sequenced as an evidence trail rather than shown as an unstructured gallery.
01 · Consultation
02 · Pre-construction
03 · Early works
04 · Mobilisation
05 · Installation
06 · Late stage
07 · Acceptance
08 · Handover
09 · Completed facade
This case uses supplied original project photography and the available delivery record. Final contractual documents govern the precise scope, responsibilities and warranties.
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Stick Curtain Wall · 2 200 m² envelope
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Stick Curtain Wall · 2,150 m² envelope
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