He arrived at nineteen with $350 and a resolve that didn't need a roadmap. He washed dishes, mopped floors, worked his way through the restaurant industry, traveled internationally, and eventually found Northwest Arkansas — a place he would describe for the rest of his life as one of the best decisions he ever made. From a single lot provided by a mentor who believed in him, Fadil Bayyari built a construction and real estate business that shaped the physical landscape of Benton and Washington County for three decades.
Residential communities and commercial properties. Industrial developments and long-term real estate holdings. Schools, parks, hospitals, and houses of worship bearing the mark of his work and, often, his family's name. What Fadil built was never just a business — it was an ongoing act of investment in the community that welcomed him.
"Orangery Works is built on that foundation — carrying it forward with the technology, precision, and next-generation family commitment to grow what he spent a lifetime planting."
The Bayyari family name traces its roots through the citrus groves of historic Palestine. The grove — patient, cultivated, generational — is the metaphor we carry into every building we serve.
Fadil Bayyari founded Bayyari Construction in 1992. Over three decades he built residential subdivisions, commercial properties, and a real estate portfolio that helped define the shape of Northwest Arkansas.
An orangery is the structure built to grow citrus where climate alone would not allow it — engineered climate control, drainage, airflow. It is a building systems achievement. That is exactly what we do.
An old American word for infrastructure. Gasworks. Ironworks. Waterworks. Essential. Unglamorous. Load-bearing. The company a community depends on without thinking twice. That is what we intend to be.
Fadil Bayyari arrived in the United States at nineteen years old with $350 in his pocket and the kind of determination that doesn't require a plan to be real. He washed dishes. He mopped floors. He worked his way through the restaurant industry, through international business in Bahrain, and eventually found his way to Northwest Arkansas — a place he would later describe as one of the best decisions of his life.
With the mentorship of Willard Walker — an early Walmart investor who provided the lot for Fadil's first building project — he founded Bayyari Construction in 1992. What followed was a career that touched nearly every corner of the region: residential subdivisions and custom homes, commercial buildings and industrial properties, the Bayyari Business Center and a portfolio of real estate that helped define the physical shape of a growing community.
But the buildings are only part of the story. Fadil donated land for Bayyari Elementary School in Springdale. He donated land for a city park in Fayetteville. His family contributed $1 million toward Arkansas Children's Northwest hospital. His construction company built Temple Shalom of Northwest Arkansas — at cost — after the congregation struggled to find a home, and has donated construction services to Baptist churches across the region. Interfaith, cross-cultural, deeply rooted: that is the man who built the foundation this company stands on.
Sara Bayyari spent her career operating at the intersection of extreme complexity and human performance — leading global teams across some of the most demanding industries in the world, in environments where the margin for error is measured in inches and the standard is non-negotiable.
She holds an Airline Transport Pilot certificate with thousands of hours in turbine aircraft and built her career leading aviation operations and enterprise teams for major corporations — implementing international safety standards, managing large-scale departments, and creating cultures where people didn't just do their jobs well, but genuinely loved what they did together and who they did it for.
What she is building now is a deliberate translation: take everything that global complexity required — the systems thinking, the precision culture, the relentless documentation, the deep investment in people — and bring it home. To Northwest Arkansas. To the community her father helped build. To a team of people with a real passion for the work and a genuine stake in the place they do it.
Orangery Works exists to grow what Fadil built — honoring his legacy with the technology, precision, and next-generation commitment that carries it forward.
Every commercial building runs on three systems. When they work, nobody notices. When they fail, nothing else in the building can function. Orangery Works exists to make sure they never fail — and when they show signs of strain, to find it before it becomes a crisis.
We are building a property services company for commercial landlords and property managers in Northwest Arkansas who are tired of unreliable contractors, incomplete documentation, and service calls that fix the symptom without diagnosing the cause.
Our founding vertical. Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and mechanical system maintenance for commercial properties across Benton and Washington County. We are launching with a focused client base and a commitment to doing this one thing at the standard it deserves before we grow further.
Serving Benton County · Washington County · NWA Metro
We are not the cheapest option in the market. We are the option that shows up on time, documents what we find, and tells you the truth about what your building needs — even when that truth involves a repair you had not budgeted for. Property owners who care about the long-term value of their assets work with companies that operate the way we do.
"We will not recommend work that does not need to be done. We will not defer maintenance that does."
Sara Bayyari spent her career operating in environments where approximation is not an option. Aviation departments running for Fortune 50 companies. Global teams across complicated industries. Operations where a missed checklist item has consequences that cannot be undone after the fact.
The lesson she carried from every one of those environments is the same: the discipline that keeps an aircraft airworthy is the same discipline that keeps a building's systems running. You document everything. You verify before you sign off. You build a culture where the standard is not aspirational — it is the floor, not the ceiling.
That is the operating model for Orangery Works. Every service call runs a checklist. Every system we touch is measured, documented, and verified before we leave. We do not estimate when we can confirm. We do not defer what we find. We do not leave without knowing the system is airworthy.
ATP Certificate8,000+ hours, turbine aircraft
Fortune 50 Flight OperationsWalmart Global Aviation · Humana
IS-BAO Safety StandardsInternational aviation safety, implemented at scale
Global Team Leadership80-person departments across complex, high-stakes industries
An orange grove is not planted all at once. Each tree is established before the next is added. The root system has to be strong enough to support what grows above it. That is our model — a services platform that expands only when the foundation is solid enough to carry the next branch.
HVAC and mechanical systems. The founding branch — the entry point and the proof of concept for everything that follows across NWA.
"Every building breathes. We make sure it breathes right."
Plumbing and water systems. The natural extension — same clients, same properties, complementary scheduling. A grove needs water. So does every building.
"Water finds every weakness. We find it first."
Electrical and power systems. The third branch that completes a full-service relationship with every property we serve in the portfolio.
"Power, maintained to standard."
Together — Climate, Flow, and Current — Orangery Works becomes the single relationship a commercial property owner needs for everything inside the walls. That is the long-term vision. We are building toward it the way a grove is planted: patiently, deliberately, and with the next generation in mind.