Wooden sauna with slatted backrests, corner benches, a wall lamp and a stone-topped heater

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Copthorne Hotel Baranan

Sulaymaniyah · Iraq

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Sauna Dekor Spa Solutions — designing, manufacturing and installing saunas, steam rooms, hammams and pools since 1987, in our own facility in İkitelli OSB, Istanbul.

Sauna, steam rooms, hammam, spa hot tub and treatment rooms at Copthorne Hotel Baranan, Sulaymaniyah — heater duty, tanking and drying-down explained.

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Hydrotherapy pool
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From the project

Steam room lined in gold and purple glass mosaic with a curved seat and rounded corners — Steam room

Treatment room with a lit hydrotherapy capsule, padded massage beds and gold mosaic walls — Massage room

Rendered relaxation nook with two cushioned benches flanking a lit stone bowl on a pale plinth

Rendered treatment room with a cushioned massage bed, rolled towels, candles and a frosted glass wall — Massage room

[ The build ]

Hammam, sauna, steam rooms and treatment rooms at Copthorne Hotel Baranan

Sauna Dekor has been building saunas, hammams, steam rooms and wet spa areas since 1987 — this is our 40th year. We manufacture in İkitelli, Istanbul and take single-point responsibility for design, production, installation and commissioning. 41+ countries to date.

This page records the spa thermal areas at Copthorne Hotel Baranan in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.The zones listed for the project are sauna, massage rooms, steam rooms, spa hot tub and a hammam.

Scope of work: a marble hammam with kurna, sauna cabins, steam rooms and treatment rooms

This is a hotel spa laid out as a circuit rather than a room-by-room list: a marble hammam with kurna washing points, timber sauna cabins, steam rooms, a spa hot tub and a run of treatment rooms alongside. Our photographic record covers all of it, with the treatment rooms particularly well documented. The work was taken as one wet-area package — falls and tanking,marble and mosaic, cabins and benching, generators and heaters, ventilation terminals,drainage and commissioning — rather than as an equipment supply.

Sauna heater and steam generator selection for hotel duty

Hotel duty is the governing factor. A sauna heater in a hotel is on for the whole opening day, so we specify commercial-rated stone heaters with an accessible element and a control that sits outside the cabin, timed and setpoint-limited so a guest cannot leave it running at maximum. Steam generators are chosen on recovery: the general rule is to size on room volume and surface losses, then add headroom for how often the door opens, and in a hotel the door opens far more than any calculation based on volume would suggest. The hammam is a slab problem, not an air problem — the navel stone and benches are warmed from below, they take along soak to reach working surface temperature, and they need to be brought on before the spa opens.

Ventilation and drying down: sauna, steam room, hammam and treatment rooms

Each thermal room gets its own air strategy. Sauna: supply low at the heater, extract low and diagonally opposite, so air crosses the benches. Steam and hammam: continuous extract running past closing so the rooms dry down overnight, which keeps grout, joinery and ceilings alive. The spa hot tub needs extract above it for the same reason. The treatment rooms next door are the opposite requirement — they must stay quiet and dry, so they are kept slightly positive against the wet circuit and acoustically separated from the plant, otherwise the noise and the humidity of the thermal side migrate into the part of the spa the guest is paying most for.

Tanking, marble kurna and hammam finishes

All wet rooms were tanked before any finish was laid: bonded membrane over the screed,reinforcing tape into corners, movement joints and every penetration, dressed into the gullies and carried up past splash height. Falls set in the screed rather than made up in the adhesive. Epoxy grout in the permanently wet rooms. Marble kurna basins and their supply points are set out first, because in a hammam the washing points fix the whole geometry —bench lengths, the position of the navel stone and the drainage falls all follow from them.Cabin timber is kiln-dried and low in resin, with concealed fixings. See ourTurkish bath,steam room andmassage room pages.

What we solved on site

The practical constraint was distance. Sulaymaniyah is far enough from our plant that a missing bracket is a two-week problem, so the whole package was dry-assembled and numbered in Istanbul, shipped as a sequenced load with its own spares allowance, and installed by our own crew rather than handed to a local subcontractor. The second constraint was the interface between the wet circuit and the treatment wing: getting the pressure regime right — wet sidenegative, dry side positive — is a coordination task with the hotel’s own ventilation contractor, and it has to be resolved on paper before any ceiling closes. More on how werun this at hotel spa design,services andhydrotherapy pool.

Frequently asked questions

What was built at Copthorne Hotel Baranan?

The recorded zones are sauna, massage rooms, steam rooms, a spa hot tub and a hammam — taken as a single wet-area package covering falls, tanking, marble and mosaic, cabins, generators, ventilation terminals, drainage and commissioning.

How is a hotel steam generator sized?

On room volume and surface losses first, then with headroom added for door-opening frequency. In a hotel the door opens far more often than a volume calculation implies, so recovery — not nominal output — decides how the room feels.

Why keep treatment rooms positive against the thermal circuit?

So humidity and plant noise from the wet side do not migrate into the rooms guests spend the longest in. The wet circuit is held slightly negative and extracts continuously; the treatment wing is kept dry, quiet and slightly positive.

Do you install with your own crews abroad?

Yes, on projects of this type. The package is dry-assembled and numbered in our Istanbul workshop, shipped as one sequenced load with a spares allowance, and installed and commissioned by our own installation team.

Sauna Dekor’s own certification is TS EN ISO 9001:2015 quality management, covering sauna and spa product manufacturing and after-sales service. The equipment we install carries CE / EN 60335, TÜV, GS, GREENGUARD Gold, FSC and VDI 6022 certification from its own manufacturers — EOS, Sentiotec and Condair among them.

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Copthorne Hotel Baranan

Hammam, sauna, steam rooms and treatment rooms at Copthorne Hotel Baranan

Scope of work: a marble hammam with kurna, sauna cabins, steam rooms and treatment rooms

Sauna heater and steam generator selection for hotel duty

Ventilation and drying down: sauna, steam room, hammam and treatment rooms

Tanking, marble kurna and hammam finishes

What we solved on site

Frequently asked questions

What was built at Copthorne Hotel Baranan?

How is a hotel steam generator sized?

Why keep treatment rooms positive against the thermal circuit?

Do you install with your own crews abroad?

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