New luxury apartment mega project launched
Salarpuria and Sattva group on Wednesday announced Greenage, their latest 2 and 3 bedroom apartment complex layout in Bangalore, on Hosur Road, near Silk Board Junction. Greenage consists of 10 apartment towers, ie,1672 flats, spread across 21 acres of landscaped area. It has been designed by HOK, USA, landscaped by Cracknel, UK, and architect Zachariah consultants, Bangalore. 

The amenities offered at Greenage include spectacularly landscaped gardens, water purification plant, helipad, jogging track, theatre, swimming pools, kids play area, central plaza with landscape and water features, clubhouse cum health spa, town square, departmental store, water sports and many more. The specifications offered include vitrified, granite and wooden flooring, chromium plated fittings, teakwood door frames and many more.

What makes Salarpuria Greenage one-of-a-kind is its unique ‘Mivan System Formwork’ construction system. A successfully used and developed system for forming casts in place, reinforced concrete building structures. Using this unique system, all walls, floor slabs, columns, beams, stairs, balconies, together with window and door openings, are cast in place in a single site based operation. The resultant building is very strong, accurate in dimensions and tolerances, with a high quality of finished concrete surface, meanwhile being fast, adaptable and cost effective.

 Mr Bijay Agarwal, MD of the Sattva Group said, “Greenage is like a city within a city and will be one of the largest apartment complexes in Bangalore using the latest building techniques to assure solid quality and endurance.”
Greenage‘s prime location, on Hosur main road, gives it easy access to the city and is an added benefit to its features. It has 75% of its total area marked for open spaces. The luxurious and spacious clubhouse at Greenage comes with a host of features to meet the recreational needs of each and every member of your family, like table tennis, billiards, badminton court, squash court, gymnasium, aerobics floor, indoor games, restaurant, etc. The other main features of Greenage are a 2 screen amphitheatre with large seating capacity and equipped with state-of-the-art acoustics and a hi-tech media centre.

About Salarpuria
Established in 1985 in Kolkata, the Salarpuria Group has strived to achieve excellence in the field of construction, architecture, real estate, construction management, facility and infrastructure management and finance. In Bangalore, the Salarpuria Group has completed over 8 million sq ft of prime commercial and residential properties which include IT parks, IT complexes, business and retail complexes and premium apartment complexes. The Group has also provided more than 1.5 million sq ft of interior spaces for international clients.

About Sattva
Sattva group is a new generation construction, infrastructure development and facility management company. It is headed by Mr Bijay Agarwal as CEO and MD. Sattva group will execute all the projects under implementation along with Salarpuria group.
DHNS

Real estate degree programmes
Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI), the Gulf's first institute to focus solely on real estate education, recently announced the launch of its three latest degree programmes.

The latest programmes will encompass three in-built degrees; master of real estate development, graduate diploma in real estate, and certificate in real estate, according to a DREI statement issued here.
“We are committed to introducing the most relevant programmes in real estate education,” Salem Al Shafiei, managing director of DREI, said in the statement. “By introducing this unique programme, DREI supports the development of the next generation of professionals and entrepreneurs, and equips them with the ability to deal with dynamic challenges in the local, regional and global real estate industry,” he added.

The six Gulf nations of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are witnessing a huge construction boom. Projects currently underway in the region, are valued at over $1.9 trillion.
DREI plans to enroll 35 executive graduate students for its new postgraduate programme, the deadline for submission of applications of which is October 8, 2008. The course starts October 28, 2008.

The master of real estate development is a three-semester degree programme, comprising twelve courses with a total of 120 credit hours, allocating 10 credit hours for each course and inclusive of a research project.
The new degrees are being delivered by DREI in partnership with Australia’s Bond University.
Indo-Asian News Service

Brigade to develop Info Park at Kochi
Brigade Enterprises, a Bangalore based real estate developer, has bagged 5 acres in Kochi to develop IT SEZ space. Info Park Kochi is the IT Park developed by the Government of Kerala.The built-up area is likely to be around 6, 00,000 sq ft of IT space which will be co-developed with Info Park Kochi.