Turkmenistan is considered one of the most isolated and difficult to visit countries in the world with fewer foreign visitors each year than North Korea. In the incredibly beautiful white marble capital city of Ashgabat, the US Embassy and it’s Prime Contractor struggled to complete the new embassy compound. After the construction of a new embassy compound was stopped because of setback and other design issues with the Government of Turkmenistan, the Embassy turned to T4 to obtain new furniture to replace the earlier furiture also purchased from T4’s predecessor company, Nova International in 2006. Over the course of two years, T4 completed three seperate furnishings projects for the Embassy starting with a complete package of open plan workstations and private office furniture for the new administrative offices located outside the central ring at the new co-located residential compound. Next came the Public Diplomacy section located nearer to the central city occupying a floor in a high rise commercial building where residents could visit the library and attend English classes among the many Embassy outreach programs. Here, the open plan workstations featured low panels with glass add ons to create a collaborative environment. Glass floor to ceiling partitions with doors were used to create private conferencing and training areas without the mess associated with drywall constrution. Finally, the third phase was the outfitting of the chancellary building located in central Ashgabat on the original embassy site. Open plan workstations dominated the make over with additional private offices and shared semi-private spaces. The challenge for all the projects was the logistics of consolidating, shipping, deliverying and installing the new furniture packages. As T4’s predecessor company did in the past, T4 partnered with experienced Central Asian forwarders and shippers who knew how to traverse one ocean and three seas as well as a overland haul to arrive in Ashgabat where T4’s crew unloaded the containers at each of three locatons for each of three projects; staged and installed the furniture package; disposed to all packaging and got each facility up and running in record time with the help of its local sub-contractor, Tylla Nal. International experience combined with the knowledge of how to identify quality local contractors made the difference between a well executed project and chaos. T4’s furniture packaged was supplied by the Teknion Company (www.teknion.com) and Global Office furniture (www.globalfurnituregroup.com).