The Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage at the University of Baghdad has organized a panel discussion entitled (Technical Treatments in Heating and Cooling Means in Iraqi Architecture) delivered by Prof. Dr. Saadi Ibrahim al-Daraji. The lecturer shed light on aspects of environmental and climatic treatments in Iraqi architecture and the efforts made in adapting building materials and employing them in order to organize the weather within the building units in a way that suits human nature in all seasons.
Then he addressed topics related to some examples of mud buildings that are still available in Baghdad, presenting some photos and pointing out the importance of documenting part of the environmental treatments adopted by the Iraqi architecture in buildings that remained for centuries and they embrace a group of people who successively inherited them and that they are threatened with extinction due to modernity that forced them to abandon bricks and clay in whole or in part and rely on cement and iron in the construction of modern buildings.