MARG emerging education cluster with student-oriented schemes

The Chennai-based MARG Ltd., one of India’s leading Infrastructure companies, has announced that its flagship project, MARG Swarnabhoomi, christened the city of education, research and innovation, is fast emerging a major education cluster.

Swarnabhoomi Academic Institutions (SAI), a MARG education initiative, is aimed to address the global needs towards creating an equitable society by enabling young individuals to bridge the socio-economic divide. Affordable quality education, skills development & employability enhancement, training in identified industries, promoting the valued heritage & culture and vocational skills development are its key focus areas.

SAI has embarked upon education ventures like Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music (SAM), MARG Navajyothi Vidyalaya, MARG Institute of Design and Architecture, Swarnabhoomi (MIDAS), and Virginia Tech – India Campus and Finishing School (EXCEL) in the cultural corridor consisting of Mahabalipuram, Auroville and Kancheepuram, renowned for its architectural inspiration. Besides, a Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Studies that will take a uniquely integrated look at parameters like water, waste management ,energy and green building initiative, is also on the anvil.

Mr. GRK Reddy, Chairman & Managing Director, MARG Group, said: “Our education initiatives are strategically located in the quite, green, pollution-free and pristine eco-system of MARG Swarnabhoomi. Also, the fact that students will be exposed to on-site training at the MARG facilities and project sites, extensive interaction with our international partners & faculty and that meritorious students will be absorbed within the MARG Group is a key differentiating factor. We are building 60 million sq. ft. of development, two airports at Bijapur and Bellary and two ports at Karaikal and Mugaiyur. This will be an excellent learning ground for our students”.

MARG has entered into strategic tie-ups with international majors like PYCSA S.L of Spain, LAGAN Construction of Ireland, and the Los Angeles-headquartered and Fortune 500-listed AECOM and International Infrastructure Consultants (IIC). These international partners will interact on and off site with students and share best practices.

Also, the Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (PURA) projects being undertaken by MARG in a phased manner will offer huge scope for students towards community development initiatives too. The pilot projects covering 11 village panchayats in Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu and eight village panchayats in the Karaikal region of Puducherry, benefitting over 80,000 people in total will help develop rural infrastructure like water supply system, sanitation facilities, village streets, and drainage and watershed projects, apart from placement-linked skill development activities.

Mr. Ganesh Ram, Chief Executive Officer, MARG Swarnabhoomi, says: “Senior Managers at MARG have taken a pledge to dedicate 30,000 man-hours to the group’s education activities annually. This strong reserve of visiting faculty alongwith a research-based learning environment of MARG Swarnabhoomi, is meant to enhance the learning curve and make the students career ready”.

MIDAS aims to provide excellence in architecture and design, focusing on nurturing, inspiring, and equipping the students with the best of knowledge, tools and training. MIDAS will cater to the needs of students from all over India and abroad.

The courses offered in MIDAS are five-year Bachelor Degree Program in Architecture Studies and five-year Bachelor Degree Program in Interior Design Studies. In addition to standard courses in architecture and design, specialised continuing professional development (CPD) short-term courses for working professional architects are also on the anvil.

SAM is India’s first professional music college for contemporary jazz, rock and world music and is on a par with major music colleges around the world .Operational for the past two years, SAM is planning to expand into various fine arts disciplines and become a deemed university dedicated to the field of music and fine arts to cater to over 1,000 students.

MARG Navajyothi Vidyalaya, based on CBSE syllabus, will provide opportunity to the first generation school goers for quality education at an affordable cost. Started in June with about 200 children from 1st to 7th standard, the school will be expanded to offer the entire KG to 12th standard curriculum in the near future.

EXCEL is a finishing school which offers industry-specific course curriculum and provides placement assistance. It aims at generating rural employment opportunities while offering composite and holistic career matrix to aspiring young talents.

The other knowledge initiatives of MARG include Virginia Tech (India Campus) and Marine and Logistics Institute. The campus is designed on the same lines of Virginia Tech of the US with the objective of delivering programs in India for graduate education as well as scientific and technological engagement through a model of collaborative research, education and outreach that will address current and future global issues and create opportunities.

Source:ibrnews

Vision 2020 of MARG Swarnabhoomi on Annual day function at MARG Navajyothi Vidyalaya

 

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Architect Chitra Vishwanath visit to MIDAS

Ar.Chitra Vishwanath, Principal Architect & Managing Director of Architecture Biome, lectured at MIDAS addressing the budding architects on the need to evolve ecologically responsive architecture. Her practice is widely known for its eco-sensitive building design specialization in Earth Architecture and transforming the traditional building techniques relevant to urban settings.

Architecture Biome is also involved in giving strategic consultancy towards issues of water, sanitation, alternative energy and consulting for other architects in making their projects ecological. Biome also conducts workshops for school children, college students and does training in rainwater harvesting and building techniques.

Ar.Chitra spoke about the global scenario of Carbon footprint and the increasing CO2 emissions. The role of the construction industry in contributing to the solid waste and hence the onus on the architects to produce responsible building designs. The lecture covered the use of waste products in building construction and need for the necessary expertise to implement the good ideas.

The veteran architect reviewed the III Semester student works on their Primary School Design and encouraged the students to evolve as sensitive leaders in the profession

5 Day Camp Review from Last camp attendees – Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music(SAM)

Attendees from the last March 23rd – 27th 2012 speak on their experience.

Background music – A Faculty performance.

The First Professional College Of Music In India to offer a range of programs in contemporary music that includes Rock, Jazz, Classical, Carnatic and World music. With world renowned faculty and top of the line facilities.

Swarnabhoomi Academy Of Music
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Jordan Rudess Greets the Students of SAM

We’d like to share this personal greeting from Jordan Rudess to you all!

We’d like to share this personal greeting from Jordan Rudess to you all!

Jordan is excited to be teaching at Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music!

The incredible Pianist, Synthesist, Composer, member of the Rock supergroup Dream Theater and developer of groundbreaking iphone apps like Morphwiz, Samplewiz etc will be a guest faculty for the program alongside a glittering all-star faculty of Sofia Tosello (Argentina), Yuri Juarez (Peru), Deanna Witkowski (USA), Arthur Kell (USA), Karina Colis (Mexico), Fjoralba Turku (Albania), Juancho Herrera (Venezuela), Dario Boente (Argentina), Lonnie Plaxico (USA), Phil Maturano (USA), Karthick and Prasanna.

The First Professional College Of Music In India to offer a range of programs in contemporary music that includes Rock, Jazz, Classical, Carnatic and World music. With world renowned faculty and top of the line facilities.

Swarnabhoomi Academy Of Music
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Virginia Tech, India center to launch solar and windmill research project

Shashank Priya developed these piezoelectric windmills to power a bridge monitoring sensor network.

BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 26, 2012 – Whether India can spring millions of people from poverty rests on its capacity to produce enough electricity for everyone, National Public Radio reported earlier this month. A new Virginia Tech research center, set to open later this fall in the state of Tamil Nadu in southeast India, will mobilize an engineering team to refine and adapt windmills and solar panels for use in households in rural India.

                 

“The goal is to improve life for 400 million Indians not connected to the grid,” says Guru Ghosh, vice president for international affairs. “There are still some refinements to be made on this amazing technology developed at Virginia Tech. We’re aiming for the point where the solar panels and small windmills can be mass produced, tested in India’s rural communities, and then be deployed to create low-cost, renewable energy worldwide.”

Richard C. Benson, dean of the College of Engineering, says, “Especially during this sesquicentennial celebration of the law creating the land-grant system, Virginia Tech is honored and pleased to contribute research ideas and acumen that solve some of the world’s most pressing energy problems.”

Two years ago Virginia Tech announced an agreement with private-sector partner MARG Swarnabhoomi to establish the Virginia Tech, India campus. MARG Swarnabhoomi has committed $1.8 million for laboratory build-out, which will equal or exceed facilities at the Blacksburg-based Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems, directed by Shashank Priya of the College of Engineering. Virginia Tech is underwriting staff and operations with an initial outlay of $350,000, Ghosh says.

“We will start recruiting graduate students in India to work on the project immediately, while our 6,000-square-foot lab space is being fully outfitted,” says Roop Mahajan, director of theInstitute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Tech. “Our push for sustainable energy technology reflects our understanding of the interconnectedness of developed and developing countries. With more than a billion people worldwide living in rural communities in extreme poverty, how energy production proceeds will have global impact.”

The new research center will be called the VT, India Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science Innovation Center. The center will be inside MARG Swarnabhoomi’s Amrita Research Park, where ocean breezes are conducive to windmill research, Mahajan says. Windmills are being designed to work in areas of low and variable wind speed; similarly, the solar panels are being designed to work in low-light conditions, he says.

While initially graduate students assigned to the center will be drawn from Virginia Tech‘s partner institutions in India, eventually Blacksburg-based students will have the opportunity to work on the project, Ghosh says. “In addition to giving access to investors interested in commercial application, our being in India also provides Virginia Tech’s graduate-level engineering students valuable experience working in a developing country.”

Priya adds, “India, with its big energy needs, can immediately begin to use these technologies and tell us how they work, what improvements need to be made, and guide us so that the windmills and solar panels are suitable to go to the marketplace.”

The windmills, which currently cost less than $1,000 to produce, use a unique blade developed at Virginia Tech that achieves greater than normal aerodynamic performance. The solar panels involve a paint process that might one day be easily mass produced in a factory.

The VT, India Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science Innovation Center will be part of the National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center established at Virginia Tech in 2010, Priya says.

Virginia Tech’s Outreach and International Affairs supports the university’s engagement mission by creating community partnerships and economic development projects, offering professional development programs and technical assistance, and building collaborations to enrich discovery and learning – all with the overarching goal of improving the quality of life for people within the commonwealth and throughout the world. Outreach and International Affairs leads Virginia Tech’s presence on five continents; its regional research and development centers across the commonwealth focus on graduate education and professional development. Blacksburg-based centers are dedicated to student engagement, language, policy, and governance.

 

Source:vtnews.vt

High rise buildings in Chennai to depend on solar for 2% energy needs

With the ever increasing power deficit taking a toll on the economy, the Tamil Nadu government is planning to make it mandatory for major industries, high-rise apartment complexes, major institutions and hotels to meet 2% of their energy needs from solar sources. State environment minister B V Ramana said this on the sidelines of a meeting with the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board officials here on Monday. He said the environment department was debating the proposal, and it would be rolled out as a green initiative.

The proposal may lessen the burden on the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, given the wide gap of 4,000 MW between demand and supply. Unable to supply power, the TNEB is imposing up to 12 hours of power cuts in many rural areas. “Solar system is cost intensive. Unless developers are given subsidies, it cannot be promoted. Only the enduser has to bear the cost.

A one KW solar panel with battery costs . 2.3 lakh and generates four units a day. A similar unit without battery costs . 1.2 lakh and generates five units.

Going Green

• Tamil Nadu is facing a shortage of 4,000MW as on date
• TNEB has been imposing 12-hr power cuts in some rural areas
• Major industries, high-rises & institutions to be asked to meet 2% of their energy requirements through solar power
• As demand rises, there may be a fall in cost of solar panels which now cost between 1.2 lakh and 2.3 lakh

Source: The Times of India, Chennai

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Marg Limited one among the best builders in Chennai Launched low budget flats in Chennai at marg swarnabhoomi starting from 9 lakhs*

Marg Limited one among the best builders in Chennai Launched low budget flats in Chennai at marg swarnabhoomi starting from 9 lakhs*.

Homes @ Swarnabhoomi:

Homes At Marg Swarnabhoomi

Assured Rental Income – Mar Swarnabhoomi

Homes At Marg Swarnabhoomi :With Assured Rental Schemes
Four Seasons – Rs 17.82 lacs *
Navratna – Rs.13 lakhs to Rs.55 lakhs *
utsav – Rs.10.80 lakhs to Rs.21 lakhs*
maha utsav – 21.00 lakhs to 29.5 lakhs*
aayush – Rs.9.96 lakhs to Rs.11.8 lakhs* 

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four seasons logo – Marg Swarnabhoomi

4 Seasons : Tallest apartment complex on ECR @ Rs. 1850/- p. sq.ft. only
– Four Seasons will have 4320 apartments which will be developed in various phases .

– Tallest apartment complex on ECR – Four Seasons will be of max .28 floors . We have launched 26 floors ( Summer block) in phase 1 .The other high rise buildings like Hiranandani Upscale ( 28 floors ) & TVH Oranya bay ( 29 floors ) are located on OMR and not on the East Coast Road .

– 2BHK Rs 18.57 lacs * is the starting price of a 2BHK flat measuring 1004 sq ft

–  Launched on 11.11.11 – this date is considered very auspicious as it comes once in 100 years hence we did the Four Seasons project pooja on 11.11.11

– Only Four Seasons will have (Wooden Floor in Master Bedroom, Foyer, Shear Wall Structure, Podium Car Parking, Main door Carved Teak wood, three side lifts for each blocks, Garbage Chute, Power Backup, etc)

4 SEASONS
	Winter	Spring	Summer	Autumn	Total
2BHK+2T Blocks	8	2	5	4	19
3BHK+3T Blocks				5	5
2BHK+2T Apartments	1088	272	1072	864	3296
3BHK+3T Apartments				1024	1024
Total Apartments					4320

Assured Rentals
2BHK – Rs. 7,500/- per month
3BHK – Rs. 9,000/- per month

PAYMENT SCHEDULE & Floor Plans (Click to download)

4Seasons-Marg swarnabhoomi

four seasons – marg swarnabhoomi

marg swarnabhoomi – Four Seasons Apartment – view towards winter block from autumn

marg swarnabhoomi – Four Seasons Apartments – sea view n lake view

Four Seasons – Marg Swarnabhoomi – LAYOUT PLAN

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Aayush:aayush logo – Marg Swarnabhoomi

The Total land extent will be 3.3 acres where we will develop 576 apartments.

The project offers you 2 BHK apartments ranging between 660 Sqft to 762 Sqft and the cost will vary between Rs.9.57 lakhs to Rs.11.04 lakhs offered at a price of Rs.1450/ per sq ft.

Facilities: Security, Club House, Space for ATM, Childrens Play Area, Reserved/Visiters Car Park, Convineo, Swimming Pool, Pharmacy, Multi-Purpose Hall, 100% Power backup.
Assured Rentals
2BHK – Rs. 4,000/- per month

PAYMENT SCHEDULE & Floor Plans (Click to download) 

 

Aayush Apartments – Marg Swarnabhoomi – starting price at 9Lakhs*

Aayush Apartments – Marg Swarnabhoomi – starting price at 9Lakhs*

Aayush Apartments – Marg Swarnabhoomi – starting price at 9Lakhs*

Aayush Apartments – Marg Swarnabhoomi – starting price at 9Lakhs*

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Maha Utsav:maha utsav logo – Marg Swarnabhoomi

An apartment with 3 sides Ventilation is a “Dream to own” & one with no common walls is “A Luxury”.

Premium Apartments:

392 Apartments in Maha Utsav is launched with both the Unique Feature.

Offer 2BHK, 3BHK+2T & 3BHK+3T types of Apartment.

Area ranges from 1114 Sqft to 1566 Sqft.

Price ranges from 18.38 lakhs to 25.83* for Premium & Penta-Duplex at 40.12 to 56.36* lakhs @ Rs.1650 per Sqft

Economical Apartment:

324 Apartments in Maha Utsav is launched with Economical Feature.

Offer 2BHK, 3BHK+2T & 3BHK+3T types of Apartment.

Area ranges from 752 Sqft to 867 Sqft.

Price ranges from 12.22 lakhs to 14.08 lakhs* @ Rs.1625 per Sqft

Apartment will be hand over by June 2013

                                                                                                                                                  

Facilities: Security, Club House, Space for ATM, Childrens Play Area, Jogging track, Car Wash Bay, Senior Citizen Park Open/Close/Visitors Car Park, Convineo, Acupuncture walkway, Yogo Platform, Swimming Pool, Multi-Purpose Hall, 100% Power backup.
Assured Rentals
2BHK – Rs. 5,000/ to Rs 6,000- per month
3BHK to Penta-Duplex- Rs. 7,000/ to Rs 8,000/- per month

PAYMENT SCHEDULE & Floor Plans (Click to download)
Pricing List for block A & B
Pricing List for C, D & F  

maha-utsav Apartments – Marg Swarnabhoomi

maha-utsav Apartments – Marg Swarnabhoomi

maha-utsav Apartments – Marg Swarnabhoomi

maha-utsav Apartments – Marg Swarnabhoomi

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Utsav:utsav logo- Marg Swarnabhoomi

The Total land extent will be 18 acres where we will develop 720 apartments in 2 phases.

Phase 1 will have 320 apartments which will be completed and handed over by June 2012.

Phase 2 will have 400 apartments which will be completed for handed over by Dec 2012

The construction has already started & is progressing as per schedule.

The project offers you 2 BHK, 2BHK Plus & 3 BHK apartments ranging between 628 Sqft and 1232 Sqft and the cost will vary between Rs.10.36 lakhs to Rs.20.14* lakhs offered at a price of Rs.1650/ per sq ft.

Facilities: Security, Club House, Space for ATM, Childrens Play Area, Jogging track, Car Wash Bay, Senior Citizen Park, Open/Close/Visitors Car Park, Convineo, Acupuncture walkway, Yogo Platform, Swimming Pool, Basket Ball Court, Cricket Net, Shuttle Court, Yoga Platform, Pavilion, Skating Rink, Pharmacy, Dry Cleaning, Multi-Purpose Hall, 100% Power backup.Assured Rentals
2BHK – Rs. 5,000/ to Rs 6,000- per month
3BHK – Rs. 7,000/- per monthPAYMENT SCHEDULE (Click to download)

Pricing List for 2 BHK

Pricing List for 2 BHK Plus

Pricing List for 3 BHK

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Navratna:navratna logo – Marg Swarnabhoomi

This is the 1^st residential enclave of Marg Swarnabhoomi and it is one the best real estate you can get. The Total land extent will be 9 acres.

Navratna phase1 with 300 apartments sold out & Navratna phase2 with 280 apartments will be completed and handed over by May 2011.

The apartment offers a choice of 1BHK, 2BHK, 3BHK, 4BHK & Pent House ranging between 656 Sqft to 3040 Sqft.

The apartments cost ranges from Rs.13 lakhs to Rs.55 lakhs worked at Rs.1650/ rate per Sqft.

Facilities: Security, Club House, Space for ATM, Childrens Play Area, Car Wash Bay, Senior Citizen Park, Open/Close/Visiters Car Park, Convineo, Swimming Pool, Pharmacy, Dry Cleaning, Multi-Purpose Hall, 100% Power backup.Assured Rentals
2BHK – Rs. 5,000/ to Rs 6,000- per month
3BHK to Penta-Duplex – Rs. 7,000/ to Rs 8,000/- per monthPAYMENT SCHEDULE (Click to download)

Pricing List for 2 BHK – Phase I  

Pricing List for 2 BHK – Phase II

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Navratna – Marg Swarnabhoomi

Navratna Apartments – Marg Swarnabhoomi

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