Bayan Signage designs and fabricates street name signs for master communities, gated compounds, industrial areas and campuses across the UAE. We fix every Arabic and English spelling in one schedule, cut and face the reflective blades in our Ajman factory and install the posts ourselves, with a 5-year warranty on structure and powder coat.
Street name signs identify a road at its junctions, usually as a double-sided reflective blade on a post, with the name in Arabic and English and often a street number or sector code. We make them for developers handing over villa communities, compound owners replacing faded wall plates, free-zone and industrial plot operators with numbered internal roads, and universities naming their campus streets.
Most poor street signs fail on one of three things: a decorative font that cannot be read from a moving car, a name spelled two ways on neighbouring corners, or a blade turned to face the wrong street. None of these is a workshop fault; each is decided before anything is cut. That is why our designers set the longest name at full size first, our draftsmen lock the bilingual schedule, and only then do the blades go to the CNC router and the sheeting laminator.
Bayan Signage has run its own factory at Alam Square, Industrial Area 2, Ajman since 2016, as the production arm of Bayan Advertising, which has served UAE clients for 15 years. Street signing is usually a quantity job of hundreds of matching blades, and keeping the blades, posts and powder coat under one roof is what keeps the last sign identical to the first.
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The right format depends on how the road is used and how much character the community wants. These are the formats we make most often.
Plain aluminium blades with reflective faces on galvanised posts. The practical choice for industrial areas, free zones and private roads where clarity matters more than character.
View details →Powder-coated posts in the developer's colours with finials, logo caps and shrouds over the base bolts. The decoration stays in the frame so the lettering keeps its full size.
View details →Number plates for villas and buildings in the same font and colours as the street blades, so the whole address system reads as one family.
View details →Road names and building codes for universities, hospitals and schools, tied to the campus map so visitors can match what they see to what they hold.
View details →Stop, give way and speed signs that often share a junction with the street blades, made in the same sheeting grade so the corner reads consistently at night.
View details →For main community entrances where a single blade is not enough, larger panels above the lanes name the districts and streets ahead before the first split.
View details →We walk or drive every junction with your plan, noting the near-side corner for each approach and any trees, lamp posts or boundary walls that could hide a blade. The survey is free in Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman.
Our draftsmen build one schedule of every street name in Arabic and English, with numbers and abbreviations, and send it for your written approval. Nothing is cut until every spelling is signed off.
Designers set the longest name at true size first. Its length fixes the blade length for the whole scheme, so every blade on a roundabout matches instead of arriving in three sizes.
Blades are CNC-cut, faced on both sides with reflective sheeting and lettered with cut sheeting or matched overlay film, then checked against the approved schedule line by line.
Posts, brackets and finials are cut and welded in our metal shop and powder-coated to the community RAL colour, so posts and blades leave the factory as matched sets.
Our crew sets each post, aligns each blade parallel to the street it names, and hands over a schedule listing every junction with its sign text and a photograph.
Our standard specification suits most community and industrial roads. Developers' design guides often adjust colours, post style and fonts, and every change is itemised on the quote.
| Component | Our standard | Upgrade options | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blade | Extruded aluminium, 150 to 300 mm tall | Custom profile or framed blade | Extrusions stay straight over long spans and take a bracket at each end without twisting. |
| Faces | High intensity reflective sheeting, both sides | Microprismatic for faster roads | Most street signs are read at night, in headlights, by delivery riders, taxis and ambulance crews. |
| Lettering | Clear sans serif and open Arabic face | Developer's brand typefaces where legible | Open letter shapes survive distance and glare; condensed and script fonts do not. |
| Post | Galvanised steel or aluminium, 60 to 90 mm | Fluted, tapered or cast-look decorative posts | A stiff post keeps the blade level, and decoration should never cost the lettering its size. |
| Bracket | Aluminium top bracket for one or two blades | Logo cap or finial | Two blades at right angles on one post name both streets at a junction. |
| Finish | Powder coat to RAL | Two-tone or textured coat | Powder coat resists UV and sand better than wet paint and is easy to match on later phases. |
| Base | Concrete footing, about 400 x 400 x 600 mm | Base plate with decorative shroud | Footings suit open ground; base plates suit finished paving where digging would damage the hardscape. |
Street signing goes wrong in the schedule more often than in the workshop. These are the points we settle with developers before production starts.
Transliterated names drift: one corner says Al Khail, the next says Al Kheil, and delivery apps then send riders to the wrong place. We agree one spelling for every name, in Arabic and English, in a signed schedule, and we suggest the same list goes to your map designer, the address plates and the community app. One list used everywhere costs far less than reprinting a run of blades.
A blade must sit parallel to the street it names. Turned the other way, it appears to name the cross street and sends visitors down the wrong road. On site we mark each blade's direction on the post before fixing, and at roundabouts we often sign two opposite corners so drivers on every approach see a name before they choose an exit.
At community road speeds, an English cap height of 75 to 125 mm reads from 20 to 50 m. A 20-character name at 100 mm needs a blade of about 1.4 m, so a scheme designed around a short sample name will not fit the long ones later. Size from the longest name, abbreviate only by agreed rules, and every blade stays the same length.
Developers want street signs to feel like part of the brand, and that is reasonable. Put the character into the post, the finial, the frame colour and a small logo, and keep the lettering plain. A decorative Arabic script that looks beautiful in a brochure is close to unreadable from a moving car at dusk, which is exactly when most visitors are searching.
Palms and hedges grow quickly in irrigated communities, and a blade that was clear at handover can vanish behind fronds within a year. We check the landscape drawings at the survey and place posts outside future canopy lines, and we recommend the facility team adds sign sightlines to its trimming schedule.
We price street signing from the junction count and the specification, not from a list. Send us the master plan, the street names and your design guide, and we will return an itemised quote, usually within 24 hours, with blades, posts, installation and approvals shown separately.
Most of the cost scales with posts and blades. A community with fifty junctions and two blades on each is mainly a quantity job, which keeps the cost per sign efficient.
Longer names and taller letters need longer blades and more sheeting. Adding a street number or sector code to the same blade increases the size again.
A plain galvanised post is the most economical. Fluted, tapered or decorative posts with finials and shrouds add fabrication and finishing time to every post.
High intensity sheeting costs more than engineering grade, but it reads better in headlights and holds its brightness longer in UAE sun.
Open ground takes simple footings. Finished paving needs base plates and careful coring, and buried services must be scanned before any excavation.
Master developers often ask for a sample post before the full run. It adds a step to the programme but avoids replacing a whole community's signs later.
On public roads, street names are set by the authorities and the signs follow official specifications, so an owner cannot put up their own. In Dubai, the municipality and RTA are usually involved in naming and addressing, and buildings also carry Makani numbers; the other emirates run their own systems. Inside master communities, gated compounds, free zones and private campuses, the developer or free-zone authority normally approves both the names and the sign design.
We prepare the drawings, sign schedule and sample post that developers' design teams and free-zone authorities usually ask to see, and we keep the approved schedule on file for later phases and replacements. Requirements vary between communities and change over time, so we confirm what applies to your site before production begins.
Blades, posts and powder coat are made at our Ajman factory, so the hundredth sign matches the first in colour, lettering and size. Visits during production are welcome.
Our draftsmen check every Arabic and English name against the approved list and keep the schedule for later phases, replacements and address plates.
Street name signs are covered for 5 years on structure and powder coat, with the warranty document issued at handover.
The crew that fabricates the posts installs them, aligns every blade on site and hands over a photo schedule of each junction.
Blades, posts, installation and approvals are listed separately, usually within 24 hours, so the developer's team can compare offers line by line.
More than 500 clients across the UAE, including national retail groups and international brands, and most of our work comes from repeat clients and referrals.
The cost depends mainly on the number of junctions, blade length, post style and ground conditions. Plain reflective blades on galvanised posts cost far less per junction than decorative posts with finials and logo caps. Send us the master plan, the street names and any design guide, and we will send an itemised quote, usually within 24 hours.
Not on public roads, where names and signs are set by the authorities. Inside private communities, compounds, industrial plots and campuses, the owner or master developer usually decides, sometimes with free-zone or municipality input. We confirm the current requirement for your site before any production starts.
For community roads read from 20 to 50 m, English cap heights of about 75 to 125 mm are typical, with the Arabic at an equal visual size. Faster roads need larger letters. We size lettering from the real reading distance and the longest name, so every street name sign in the scheme matches.
Yes, in almost every case. Street signs are read after dark by delivery riders, taxi drivers and emergency crews, and reflective sheeting makes the name visible in headlights with no power supply. High intensity grade gives a good balance of cost, brightness and life on community roads.
Usually on the same blade, either stacked with Arabic on top or side by side, depending on the design guide. Both scripts should look the same size from the road. We agree the layout and the spellings once and apply them to every sign in the community.
Post-mounted blades suit most community roads because they sit at the corner, above parked cars and planting, and read from both directions. Wall plates suit older neighbourhoods and narrow lanes with continuous boundary walls, but they hide easily behind vehicles and trees. Many schemes use blades at junctions and plates along long walls.
Yes. We install across all seven emirates from our factory in Ajman, including footings or base plates on finished paving. The site survey is free in Dubai, Sharjah and Ajman, and we can phase installation to match handover of each community cluster.
Usually, yes. If we made the original, we work from the saved artwork and RAL colour. If another company made it, a photograph and measurements of a neighbouring sign let us match the blade profile, lettering and colour closely, and we make a sample for approval first.
Send your logo, the fascia size and a site photo. Our estimating team replies with options and an itemised price, usually within 24 hours.