Facilities management and life support services in Iraq

At a base, embassy compound or project camp in Iraq, life support is what keeps the mission running. Nobody notices it until it fails: a missed sludge collection, an empty fuel tank or a broken water pump. Good facilities support is planned, measured and reported, so failures are caught before they reach the client.

What facilities and life support covers

• Housing and camp services: accommodation, cleaning and janitorial work, laundry and general upkeep.
• Dining: DFAC operation and food services, including food supply.
• Power and water: generator fuel and maintenance, water wells and water supply.
• Wastewater and sanitation: sludge, wastewater and FOG removal, and chemical latrine servicing.
• Waste: bulk trash removal with compactor trucks, plus debris collection and disposal at approved sites.
• Maintenance: call-out and planned maintenance of buildings, wells and equipment.

The workforce question

Life support is labor-intensive, so the workforce decides quality and compliance. A provider must recruit, screen, medically check, train, pay and equip its staff. At U.S. Government sites, it must also meet anti-trafficking rules, which means no recruitment fees, workers keep their own documents, and contracts are written in a language they understand. It also has to keep every worker's site access current.

Enermax recruits locally and keeps a vetted pool of Iraqi workers, with background checks and monthly site access requests prepared ahead of expiry.

Running it to a standard

1. Written procedures for every task, with job hazard analyses.
2. Daily supervision and client sign-off of completed work.
3. Monthly KPI reporting, for example collections completed, response times and deficiencies closed.
4. Fast correction: any deficiency is logged, fixed and reported.
5. Permits tracked by date: vehicle access, area permits and municipal disposal approvals are renewed before they lapse.

Experience at secure sites

At the U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Enermax has provided sludge, wastewater and FOG removal since March 2024, also at Union III until September 2025. Bulk trash removal followed in July 2026, and debris collection and chemical latrine cleaning in August 2026. The work grew from one service to four active contracts. At Al Asad Airbase we drilled two deep water wells and then maintained seven wells on call for two years.