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Spa consultant in Dubai and the Gulf for hotel sauna, hammam and steam room facilities, appointed as your design subconsultant.
Concept · 3D · specification · BoQSince 1987 · 41+ countries
[ Short answer ]
Short answer: As a spa subconsultant, Sauna Dekor joins the lead consultant's design team and delivers the wellness scope's concept, spa MEP input, performance specifications and tender bill of quantities for hotel, resort and residential projects in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain.
Sauna Dekor Spa Solutions is a spa and wellness design consultant and manufacturer that provides concept design, spa MEP and wet-area consultancy, performance specifications and tender-quality Bills of Quantities for hotel, resort and residential wellness facilities in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain. The company has manufactured saunas, steam rooms and hammams in Istanbul since 1987, has delivered in 41+ countries, and works in the Emirates from its Dubai office at Latifa Tower, World Trade Centre.
Concept design, 3D visualisation, performance specifications, BoQ and authority compliance for the spa & wellness scope — delivered to your design team by a manufacturer that has built the rooms it draws.
The Role We PlayThe specialist wellness brain inside your design team.
Appointed by the lead consultant, architect or operator, we provide the spa & wellness scope's specialist design and technical input — without building the works. We sit within your design team and deliver the concept, the drawings, the specifications and the authority compliance that the wellness package needs to be tendered and built correctly.
Because we are a manufacturer, our design is buildable, costed and real. Where a generalist spa consultant produces a concept that later proves impractical or over-budget, our specifications reflect 40 years of actually building the rooms we draw — so what you tender is what gets built.
Direct Answers
Spa consultant in Dubai: what do we do for hotel wellness facilities?
Sauna Dekor is the specialist spa consultant on hotel wellness facilities in Dubai and across the UAE. We are appointed by the architect, the lead consultant, the operator or the developer to own the wellness scope inside the design team — the guest journey and zoning, the room-by-room technical criteria, the equipment schedule, the MEP and structural requirements, the tender documentation, and the DEWA, Dubai Municipality and Dubai Civil Defence requirements that the design has to satisfy.
When the same project also needs the rooms built, the work moves to our spa contractor in Dubai scope: a full package is described under spa fit-out in Dubai, a wet-area package under a main contractor under spa wet-area subcontractor, and individual rooms on the steam room contractor in Dubai and experience shower in Dubai pages. For what the role involves in general, read what a spa consultant does.
What separates a manufacturer-consultant from a generalist spa consultant is that the drawings and the specification are produced by the same company that fabricates the cabins, the hammam göbektaşı and the steam systems. A concept that cannot be built at the budget it was costed at does not leave our office. Typical hotel scopes we consult on are thermal suites (sauna, steam room, hammam, laconium), contrast circuits (cold plunge, ice fountain, snow room, experience showers), hydrotherapy pools, salt rooms and floatation, and the relaxation and treatment rooms that connect them. See also our Dubai spa contractor page and commercial spa services.
Who does spa MEP and wet area consultancy in the Gulf?
Spa MEP and wet-area consultancy is a specialist scope that sits between the architect, the MEP engineer and the spa operator, and in the Gulf it is normally carried by a wellness specialist rather than the project's general MEP consultant. Sauna Dekor provides that scope in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The scope covers: electrical load and dedicated circuits for every heat room; ventilation rates and air-change strategy; humidity control and condensate management; drainage falls, gullies and floor build-ups; tanking and waterproofing details at the interface with marble, mosaic and timber; water treatment and dosing for plunge and hydrotherapy pools; refrigeration plant for snow rooms and ice fountains; and steam-generator sizing with feedwater quality, scale control and blow-down routing. On a recent Riyadh wellness resort the thermal package alone carried a connected load of roughly 115 kW across two saunas, two steam rooms, a 22 m² hammam, four experience showers and two ice fountains — numbers that have to be agreed with the MEP engineer at design stage, not discovered on site.
Gulf conditions change the answers rather than the questions: high ambient temperature and humidity shift the cooling and dehumidification load, dust loading dictates intake filtration and maintenance access, and hard water scales steam generators and shower systems far faster than a European specification assumes. We engineer for those conditions instead of importing an unchanged European detail. Regional pages: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha.
Which certifications should a spa specification call for?
The answer is regional, and specifying the wrong regime is one of the most common causes of late approval:
- Europe and the UK — CE marking with a declaration of conformity for the heater and the control system, IEC/EN 60335 appliance safety, and fire-performance data for wall and ceiling linings — all of them documents of the equipment and material manufacturer, not of the installer.
- GCC (UAE, Qatar) — as Europe, plus a material approval submittal with data sheets, test certificates and physical samples for the authority and the fire consultant. The submittal package is itself a programme item; a supplier who has never assembled one is a programme risk.
- Saudi Arabia — as the GCC, plus a SABER certificate of conformity. Where a Riyadh specification has demanded UL listing on European appliances, we have declared it as a single deviation and offered IEC/EN 60335, CE, GS/TÜV and SABER certificates of the equipment manufacturer as the equivalence.
- North America — CSA, cUL or cETL listing, and a CSA SPE-1000 field evaluation after installation and before energisation. CE alone is not valid, and the supply is 120/208 V or 347/600 V at 60 Hz.
Warranty should be written into the specification the same way: ours is a 24-month warranty on workmanship and manufacturing; 24-month manufacturer's warranty on electrical and mechanical equipment; 5-year warranty on structure and waterproofing.
Design Scope & Deliverables
What we deliver as your sauna, hammam and steam room subconsultant.
A complete specialist wellness design package that integrates with the lead consultant's documentation and the project programme.
3D Visualisation
Photo-realistic renders of each room for client, operator and authority sign-off before a panel is cut.
Detailed Design & Drawings
Technical drawings, sections and details, with MEP, structural, drainage and ventilation requirements defined.
Performance Specifications
Material and equipment schedules and performance specs that any qualified contractor can price and build.
BoQ & Tender Support
Tender-quality Bill of Quantities, tender documentation, contractor queries and technical bid evaluation.
Authority & Compliance
DEWA, Dubai Municipality, Civil Defence and (where relevant) DHA requirements built into the design.
Design that is buildable, costed and compliant.
A wellness scope designed in the abstract often unravels at tender and construction stage — impractical details, missing services, or budgets that don't survive contact with a real contractor. As a manufacturer, we design from the inside out.
- Buildable, real-world details
- Specs grounded in manufacturing
- Accurate, defensible budgets
- Correct MEP & services from day one
- Authority compliance designed in
- Vendor-neutral, tender-ready output
How We Engage
From brief to tender-ready package.
We plug into the design programme at the stage you need and hand over documentation your team and the contractor can build from.
- Stage 1
Brief & Concept Alignment
Operator brief and architect drawings reviewed; conceptual layout, experience flow and product schedule.
- Stage 2
Schematic Design & 3D
Floor plans, sections and photo-real renders of each room for client and operator sign-off.
- Stage 3
Detailed Design & Specs
Technical drawings, performance specifications, MEP / structural schedules and authority requirements.
- Stage 4
BoQ & Tender
Tender-quality Bill of Quantities, tender documentation, contractor queries and bid evaluation.
- Stage 5
Construction-Stage Support
Shop-drawing review, site queries, inspections and design compliance through to handover.
Wellness Scope We Specify
Finnish sauna, steam room, laconium and hammam — every modality specified correctly.
We design and specify the full vocabulary of heat, water and cold — each to its own temperature, humidity, dwell-time, MEP and compliance profile.
Authority & Compliance — UAE
Compliance designed in, not bolted on.
We build the relevant UAE authority requirements into the design and specification from concept stage, so approvals run smoothly for your team.
Dubai · UtilityDEWA
Electrical loads, dedicated circuits and connection requirements defined at design stage.
Dubai · Civil DefenceDCD
Fire, oxygen and life-safety provisions specified for heat and specialist rooms.
Dubai · MunicipalityDM
Wet-area, hygiene, structural and aquatic-facility provisions incorporated.
HealthDHA
Coordination for clinical wellness scopes (e.g. HBOT) where applicable.
FederalESMA
ESMA-aligned specifications for imported wellness equipment.
EngineeringGCC Climate
High-humidity, high-temperature, dust and hard-water provisions engineered in.
ISO 9001TS EN ISO 9001:2015 · our certificate no. 202025106CE · EN 60335Equipment manufacturer's certification (EOS, Harvia, Condair)TimberSpecies, kiln-drying and supplier documentationEPDManufacturer's life-cycle declaration, where publishedVDE · GOST · Steam generator manufacturer's component certification
24 months · 5 years · Workmanship & equipment · structure & waterproofing
Consultancy Evidence
Hammam, sauna, steam room and cold plunge scopes we have designed, specified and reviewed.
Described by city and facility type. Client, operator and brand names are withheld under confidentiality; named references are released with the capability statement on request.
Six-zone wet area — Dubai, UAE
Appointed as design subconsultant beneath a lead design practice on a lump-sum design-engineering fee, with a five-stage deliverable programme and a RACI matrix defining responsibility for every wellness item across the design team. Supply and installation were kept as a separate, later appointment.
Beach club spa — Abu Dhabi, UAE
Swimming pools and spa discipline under an architect-led design bid on a private beachfront estate: thermal suite, cold plunge and hydro, and the treatment, changing and back-of-house zones — with construction-stage supervision priced as a separate monthly consultancy scope across three construction packages.
Four-star hotel spa — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Concept design engagement for a level-two spa beside the gym. A roughly 70 m² programme was fitted into 49.8 m² of net usable area by moving plant outside the spa, combining the ice fountain and shock bucket into one niche and making the infrared room a glazed capsule — issued as a 1:50 layout with the thermal journey sequenced from shower to sauna and hammam, then cold ritual and plunge, then rest.
Hotel spa — East Africa
A 774 m² basement spa issued for construction as a 129-sheet A1 set: drawing register, area programme, seventeen room-type kits, and the layers a general architectural set does not carry — tanking and waterproofing plan, drainage-fall plan, spa HVAC, and sauna, jacuzzi and glass-partition details.
Wellness resort — Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Tender review of a spa thermal facilities package documented ten discrepancies in the issued documents, including a duplicated payment exposure spread across three separate Bill of Quantities sections, before any price was submitted.
Resort spa — Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Independent review of an issued spa tender established that several thermal rooms and their associated heating load had been omitted from the enquiry documents. The shortfall was engineered and quantified as a separate schedule so the client could see the true scope before award.
Five-star hotel spa — Vancouver, Canada
Design-stage specification and preliminary budget for an experience shower, ice fountain, snow and salt-brick scope, priced against the project's own tender drawings and coordinated with a 150 mm ceiling void and a curved wall that conflicted with standard side-jet positions.
Residential development — Istanbul, Turkey
Unpriced spa material and specification presentation board issued to the project's engineering consultant, covering the sauna, hammam and wet-area scope as a pure specification deliverable.
Delivered installations behind this design work are published on our projects and portfolio pages, including villa wellness suites in Emirates Hills, Jumeirah Bay Island, Nad Al Sheba, Tilal Al Ghaf and The Springs in Dubai, and in Sedra, Riyadh.
Delivered work
Rooms we have built for hotels, clubs and homes
Track Record
A design consultant with a build pedigree.
40 years specifying and building wellness facilities for hotel brands and private developments, with Gulf work coordinated from our Dubai office at Latifa Tower, World Trade Centre.
Five-star hotel spasResort thermal suitesBranded residencesOlympic training facilityOffice-tower spasBeach club spasIsland developmentsPrivate villa wellness suitesDubai · Abu DhabiRiyadh · JeddahDoha · Lusail
Five-star hotel spasResort thermal suitesBranded residencesOlympic training facilityOffice-tower spasBeach club spasIsland developmentsPrivate villa wellness suitesDubai · Abu DhabiRiyadh · JeddahDoha · Lusail
For Architects & Consultants
Frequently asked questions.
What is a spa & wellness subconsultant?
A specialist design advisor appointed by the lead consultant or architect to provide the wellness scope's concept design, technical specifications, drawings and authority compliance within the design team — without building the works.
Do you provide concept design and 3D visualisation?
Yes. We deliver experience-flow planning, space-optimised layouts, conceptual and mood design, and photo-realistic 3D renders of each wellness room for client and operator sign-off.
Can you produce tender-quality specifications and a BoQ?
Yes. We produce performance specifications, material schedules, MEP and structural requirements, and a tender-quality Bill of Quantities that any qualified contractor can price and build.
Are you independent of the build, or do you also construct?
You can appoint us purely as a design subconsultant to your team, with deliverables limited to design, specification and advisory. We can also deliver the works as a subcontractor on a separate appointment if you prefer a single-source route.
How is a manufacturer-subconsultant different from a spa consultant?
Our design is grounded in 40 years of actually building the rooms we draw, so specifications are buildable, budgets are accurate and authority compliance is designed in — reducing risk at tender and construction stage.
At what project stage can you join?
Any stage — from early concept and feasibility through to construction-stage support. We plug into the design programme at the point your team needs specialist wellness input.
Who does spa MEP and wet area consultancy in the Gulf?
Sauna Dekor provides spa MEP and wet-area consultancy in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar — electrical loads and dedicated circuits per heat room, ventilation and humidity control, drainage falls and tanking, pool water treatment, snow-room refrigeration and steam-generator sizing — engineered for Gulf ambient conditions, dust loading and hard water rather than an unchanged European detail.
What should you look for in a spa fit-out company?
Six checks: whether the company manufactures or only resells; whether one contract covers design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning; documented thermal, wet-area and cold-therapy projects of comparable scale; a prequalification pack with trade licence, insurance and method statements; experience assembling the material approval submittal the local authority and fire consultant will demand; and a single warranty covering the whole installed scope. We answer all six on our subcontractor page.
Do you also act as a turnkey wellness and spa provider for resorts?
Yes, on a separate appointment. As a subconsultant our deliverables stop at design, specification and advisory. As a subcontractor Sauna Dekor manufactures, installs, tests and commissions the complete resort wellness scope — saunas, steam rooms, hammams, pools, cold plunge and snow rooms — under the main contract. See subcontractor services.
Which countries do you cover?
The primary market is the Gulf — the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar — served from Istanbul manufacturing and a Dubai office at Latifa Tower, World Trade Centre. Sauna Dekor has delivered 5,000+ projects in 41+ countries since 1987 and works from offices in Istanbul, Dubai and Boston, with representative offices in Bodrum, Germany, Haarlem (Netherlands) and Doha (Qatar).
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