Aliens Group Wins 2 International Property Awards Asia Pacific 2012

HYDERABAD, India, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Aliens Group, a pioneering construction and infrastructure company, headquartered at Hyderabad has won two prestigious international property awards - 'Highly Commended Apartment' and 'Highly Commended Mixed-Use Development' for its project Space Station at Gachibowli, Hyderabad.

The best developments, architecture and interior design from across the length and breadth of the Asia Pacific region were celebrated at the J W Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Leading property professionals behind these outstanding projects were invited to attend the Asia Pacific Property Awards in association with HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Asia to receive their accolades.

With over 200 participating companies from India and over 600 companies from the Asia Pacific Region, Aliens Group emerged as one of the promising companies to win International Property Awards ( Asia Pacific ) 2012. The Asia Pacific Property Awards are part of the long established International Property Awards and its award winners' logo is recognized as a symbol of excellence throughout the global industry. Winning two of these coveted awards is an indisputable evidence of Aliens Group's ability to stand out amongst exceedingly strong contenders within the highly competitive Asia Pacific property arena, which included major Indian companies.

The awards, combined with other regional awards' programmes for Arabia, Europe, Africa and the Americas, form the globally renowned International Property Awards. Now entering their 18^th year, they are the world's most prestigious property competition and cover residential as well as commercial categories.  

Judging was carried out through a meticulous process involving a panel of over 60 experts covering every aspect of the property business. The next stage of the awards' programme was for top scoring five-star winners of each category to be re-judged against those from the other regions to determine the ultimate winners.

President of the International Property Awards, Stuart Shield, says, "Asia Pacific always puts up a very strong representation across the many different categories within the awards' programme. It also consistently proves to be the hardest region to beat when it comes to competing internationally for the highly coveted 'World's Best' awards."

Director, Malaysian and Multinational Corporates, HSBC Bank Malaysia, Alvin Tay, says, "HSBC is proud to participate in this summit given the bank's continuous support to the growth of hospitality and property development industries in Malaysia and the Asia-Pacific region. With HSBC Group's extensive global network and international experience of more than 145 years, we have the capacity and capability to fulfill the industries' domestic and cross-border needs through our innovative financial solutions."

Aliens Space Station, Alien's Group's pioneer project, is being developed around the concept of 'Intelligent Living' where the entire living space is designed around the needs of the residents. Space Station is one of the first Indian projects to incorporate technology extensively. The entire project has been built using a raft foundation and transverse slabs, two concepts that speed up development while adding to the strength of the building. Space Station also bears a unique S shaped design which uniformly allows sunlight, wind and ventilation across three sides, leaving each apartment fresh and airy. It has also integrated the green building concept extensively so that homes manage heating and cooling more efficiently. Home automation is one of the company's greatest features, and this is also a key differentiator for Space Station. Moreover,home automation allows homeowners to remotely manage their home and track maids, adjust lighting, call up the lift to avoid the wait and many more facilities.

About Aliens:

Aliens Group is a construction and infrastructure company headquartered in Hi-tech City, Hyderabad. Aliens group consists of Aliens Developers, Aliens Infratech and Aliens Infra. The company was founded by the visionary brother duo - Hari Challa and Venkat Challa and is committed to revolutionizing the urban landscape of Modern India. Since inception in 2004 the company has grown to a 700+ strong organization. The group is steadfastly becoming one of the prime players of Indian real estate market, with mega projects in prime zones. As pioneers of the "Intelligent Living" concept, the leadership of the company believes in applying the new age phenomenon of 'maximized spaces and maximized hassles' to satisfy the most conscientious buyers of today's generation.

In a short span of five years, Aliens group is amongst the Top Tier among Real Estate Players in India, with a vision to bring about "Urban Revolution" by creating intelligent, innovative, sustainable communities that make modern life easier, healthier and more comfortable.

An enterprising and proficient team, the Group is headed by the dynamic duo Hari Challa and Venkat Challa who have charted a path of creating townships that foster world-class architecture with unprecedented levels of form, functionality and eco-sustainability.

About Space Station

Aliens Space Station is a mixed use development located in Hyderabad, India. The project comprises of 2,200 residential apartments, a 5,000sqm clubhouse and 35,000sqm commercial zone situated on a 7.5 hectare acre lakeside site. The residential component is a 30 storey 'S' shaped building sited over a pedestrian landscaped podium, below which there are 3 storeys of car parking.  

The S shaped configuration of the residential buildings was designed to maximise the number of apartments with views over the lake and to take full advantage of the shape of the site. This design, combined with below ground parking means that the full ground level of the site can be a landscaped and pedestrianised leisure facility in its own right. A more traditional scheme would have created a large number of individual tower blocks which would have reduced the area available for the podium.  

The podium area also includes leisure facilities such as a golf driving range, badminton courts , cricket nets, squash and tennis courts and a shooting gallery. There is podium and first floor access to the clubhouse that includes indoor and outdoor swimming pools, basketball court, spa, fitness centre, supermarket and F&B outlets.  

The use of a transfer slab at first floor further maximises the transparency and openness of the landscaped podium level and allows this to flow naturally under the buildings whilst minimising the number of columns within the car park levels, thus improving their efficiency and ease of use.

The facades have been broken up with apparently randomly placed double height sky gardens which give residents further places to meet and relax and also act as places of refuge in case of emergency. The internal common corridors also benefit from strategically placed pocket gardens at each of the thirteen lift cores.

The individual apartment and penthouse layouts have been designed around the 'Vastu' rules and beliefs and the entire scheme has been designed to meet the platinum standard IGBC codes including grey water recycling and rainwater harvesting etc. Space Station One is also the first building in the state of Andhra Pradesh to be 30 storeys high.  

For Further information please contact:

Jawahar Shan, Aliens Group- +91-9966234649; JawaharShan@aliensgroup.in