Orchid Park

                               
                                      Nest Infratech is the realty & infrastructure division of the billion dollar Nest group conglomerate with headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia and offices in locations across the world like Europe, Japan, India, Middle East and Australia. Nest has helped companies across every industry  leverage technology to implement solutions that dramatically increase employee productivity, reduce the cost of operations and ensure the highest level of security for their business data. Today, it brings the same dedication in excellence and innovation in creating the finest homes

                           

                                    Nest Infratech introducing “Orchid Park”, luxury flats in Kottayam, ideally located at one of the nerve centres in the town, is a remarkable project of Nest Infratech, and includes professionally designed and thoughtfully created world class living spaces that are ideal for people who are looking for upscale living experiences at affordable prices.

Amenities: 

1) Swimming pool  2) Baby Pool 3) Sauna and Jacuzzi 4) Club house 5) Roof top party area

6) Barbeque counter 7) Advanced multi gym & Health club 8) Childrens play area 9) High speed elevators 10) Intrusion alarm system  11) Video door phone  12) Guard tour system 13)CCTV  14) Wi-Fi
15) In house Convenience store  16) Vastu friendly layouts 17) Landscaped gardens
18) Sewage treatment plant  19) Rain water harvesting  20) Spacious covered car parking 21) One year warranty

With profound understanding of market needs and aspirations of home buyers, combined with the right technical knowledge, we are endowed with unmatched expertise to deliver exactly what you look for, sometimes even surpassing the set benchmarks in housing industry.

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Prepare Your Home For The Rainy Season!!

Its the time for leaky ceilings, dripping walls, Prepare your home for this rainy season and prevent rainwater penetrating into wall or building structure and save yourself in repair costs.Cleaning Rain Gutter helps to avoid costly repairs and roof damage. Clean gutters weekly during the rainy season to ensure that they are free of debris and not backing up.

Take a look at your gutters to make sure that they drain well and don’t cause water to back up.Galvanized iron pipes joints often get cracked and cause leaks. It is advisable to solve this problem as early as possible. Using PVC pipes instead of Galvanized iron pipes will help you avoid this.

It is advisable to seek the assistance of a qualified engineer as the Nest Infratech experts request you  to evaluate, and fix the problem.Air conditioner ducts can leave an unseemly trail of water streaming across the surface of exterior walls. Such streaks are breeding grounds for algae. You need to plan for this while you’re solving the leakage problem.Rainwater running across the roof of your home can damage exterior walls. Prevent this by channeling water away.
Clear away the plant growth from the surface of the wall. Weeds tend to take root and widen minor cracks on the wall.

Cracks in walls are an outcome of old and weathered masonry. It is recommended to fix minor surface cracks with a high quality wall putty product.Make sure that both doors and windows close and seal properly. Make any repairs or improvements as necessary.Think about having your basement inspected.

Things to Remember

• Clean rain gutters weekly during the rainy season to ensure that they are free of debris and not backing up.
• If you are Cleaning Rain Gutter yourself, choose right ladder but safety is first. If you’re comfortable working from the rooftop this can be easier than working from a ladder.
• Building waterproofing is recommended to prevent water from penetrating the building.
• It is advisable to solve the leaking problem as early as possible 
• It is advisable to seek the assistance of a qualified engineer or experts to fix the problem.
• Prepare your home for this rainy season and save yourself in repair costs.
• Air conditioner ducts can leave an unseemly trail of water streaming across the surface of exterior walls. Plan for this and fix the problem while you are preparing your home for this rainy season.

Escape To The Woods

Campus Woods is located on 1 acre of land near the CUSAT Campus at Kalamassery in Kochi, Kerala.Ideally situated on the fringe of the bustling city, Campus Woods enjoys prime location advantage. With its lush landscape,easy access to highways, proximity to civic amenities and a host of other facilities, Campus Woods promises to make your life more luxurious and comfortable. This cosy township has three apartment blocks with units ranging from 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms facilitating ample scope for selection based on personal tastes and budgets.

Campus Woods:Luxurios Interiors

The NeST Project & Asset Management division offers a complete range of services viz. handling township management, house keeping, security, mechanical & electrical services, environmental health & safety management, horticulture, club management, mall management, pest control services, landscaping services & waste management. The primary objective of the division is to help reduce operating costs, enhance property value & simultaneously maintain a superior living environment for all residents. The home care division takes care of any and all nitty gritty issues that property owners may face and also offers solutions like remittance of statutory payments to local bodies, taxes, telephone, electricity, water bills etc. The Rental division helps to assess rental value, advertise and show property to potential tenants, draw up rental / lease agreement, follow up, collect security deposit, monthly rental payments and account the same. In the necessity of sale of a property, advertisements, showing the property to prospective buyers and complete end to end solutions will be handled by this division

Campus Woods: Planned Ariel  View 

NeST Infratech is the Realty and Infrastructure division of the multinational billion dollar Nest Group
conglomerate. Founded in 1991 by Dr. Javad K. Hassan and N. Jehangir, and head quartered in Chantilly, Virginia with worldwide offices in Europe, Japan, India, Middle East, and Australia, NeST Group is a well diversified Global Company that has now forayed into the realty sector with Nest Infratech. Offering exclusive living solutions at prime locations in cities across India, Nest Infratech has operations in Cochin & Kottayam and upcoming projects in Trivandrum and Calicut

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Echoes Of Kerala Architects

The voice of Indian as well as Kerala architecture hold its own importance in architecture in our daily life, The use of vastu is a booming trend between elite builders. Here we are exposing the life of  some of the legends in architecture who have Kerala roots.

Laurie Baker

Indian Coffee House,Trivandrum

Laurie Baker : Laurence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker (2 March 1917 – 1 April 2007) was a British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and for his unique space utilization and simple but aesthetic sensibility. Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, he sought to incorporate simple designs with local materials and achieved fame with his approach to sustainable architecture as well as in organic architecture. He has been called the "Gandhi of architecture".

He moved to India in 1945 in part as an architect associated with a leprosy mission and continued to live and work in India for over 50 years. He became an Indian citizen in 1989 and resided in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala from 1963 and founded COSTFORD (Centre of Science and Technology for Rural Development),Throughout his practice, Baker became well known for designing and building low cost, high quality, beautiful homes, with a great portion of his work suited to or built for lower-middle to lower class clients.

 His buildings tend to emphasize prolific - at times virtuosic - masonry construction, instilling privacy and evoking history with brick jali walls, a perforated brick screen which invites a natural air flow to cool the buildings' interior, in addition to creating intricate patterns of light and shadow. Another significant Baker feature is irregular, pyramid-like structures on roofs, with one side left open and tilting into the wind. Baker's designs invariably have traditional Indian sloping roofs and terracotta Mangalore tile shingling with gables and vents allowing rising hot air to escape. Curved walls enter Baker's architectural vocabulary as a means to enclose more volume at lower material cost than straight walls, and for Laurie, "building [became] more fun with the circle." A testament to his frugality, Baker was often seen rummaging through salvage heaps looking for suitable building materials, door and window frames, sometimes hitting a stroke of luck as evidenced by the intricately carved entry to the Chitralekha Film Studio (Aakulam, Trivandrum, 1974–76): a capricious architectural element found in a junk heap.

Eugene Pandala

Eugene Pandala: Eugene Pandala studied for a Masters in Urban Design at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He had his Fellowship in Heritage Conservation at University of York and at Fort Brockhurst (English Heritage Training Centre) in the U.K. He was the founding head of the department of Architecture at the Architecture School in Quilon where he spent educating and researching on traditional building technologies of India.

Pandala while studying at Delhi School of Planning and Architecture met the legendary architect Hassan Fathy, and was inspired to build with mud. As a nature lover, and cultural heritage conservation activist, he designs buildings with natural materials such as cob or wattle and daub, preferring interesting organic forms. Pandala built his first mud house in Kollam in 1996,comprising 2,500 sq. ft. of building, bringing him to the public's attention.

Mud House

His unique Architecture style paved way to many awards, and recognition. In 2011, Lalith Kala Academy awarded him the first Laurie Baker award .(The Hindu The Sunday, Jan 30,2011). The Designer of the year Award given by Inside Outside design magazine in 2007 (Kerala artist retreat bags best eco-friendly design award Business Standard Sunday, Mar 25, 2012) was for eco friendly design. His heritage Conservation project in East Fort Trivandrum was chosen for a commendation award by Inside Outside magazine in 2004. In 1999 for one of his residential building built with mud "Bodhi", Pandala was given, a Commendation award, by J.K. Foundations, Architect of the year award.

Fort Cochin Heritage conservation project, Trivandrum East Fort Conservation projects, is often cited as good examples of Kerala heritage conservation initiatives. This was led by Eugene Pandala’s conservation team, enabling the State Government to win the PATTA award. Sustainable architecture/Green buildings is a field where Pandala has excelled. His Tsunami rehabilitation projects, and buildings for hospitality industries receives wide acclaim due to its interwoven complicity with nature.

Kerala's elite builders like NeST Infratech, encompass low cost ideas which makes the design more exquisite , following the path of these legends of architecture.

From Homes To Apartments,The Booming Residential Trend

The lifestyle hype happening in Kerala leads to the massive migration of people from their traditional house to apartments. New generation jobs, work timings, and international work culture pave the way for the new residential migration.
 To decide which residential style suits for a family is still a tiring head ache,both sides have their own pros and cons. But the Kerala roots in the of native people, try to sustain the homely atmosphere adjusting to the apartment habits. Kerala’s premium builders like Nest Infratech provides the awe inspiring villas and new generation apartments just the way they are meant to be.

" The World Villas" in Cochin

The main milestones which makes the apartment migration to hype are

1)Location ; Apartments located at the heart of the city makes transportation easy
2)Family safety: Since the apartment lifestyle gives a large community around your family, it really ensure the safety when key person is traveling away from their home leaving family alone
3)Freedom of choice: The vast number of builders and their projects give the power of choice to select the best design and some even provide custom designs also

Since the Kerala life style gives more important to relationships and family, the apartment lifestyle is more micro compared to the traditional life style.the cons of having an apartment are

.Limited freedom to make modifications to the exteriors your home.
.Very limited space for gardening and personal hobbies.
.Maintenance comes at a cost.
.Sound interference from nearby apartments can be a nuisance.
.No flexibility to expand the space for future needs as your children grow or if
 your parents move in to live with you.

Talking about the nature of a home or an apartment ,deals with the location, design as well as careful planing of effective utilization of resources, The Flagship project of Nest infratech ,“The World Apartments” and The World Villas” ensures the Eco friendly nature, keeping the ethnicity of owning a Kerala style home ,which comes with,higher freedom.We just have to convert the house to a home with the family ambiance.

"The World Apartments" at Alwaye, Cochin.

  The advantages of having a home are
• Ability to design the house as per your wish.
•An independent house provides you greater degree of freedom.
• Future modification of exteriors as per the latest trends and wishes.
• If you have keen interest in gardening then you would have a space to build on your interest or grow your pets.
• Privacy with no sound pollusion.
• You can always expand the space as per requirement in the future when your children grow up.
• You can develop the higher floors when you want to make some additional income through rent.

As an answer to this dilemma, some of the people find owning a personal villa excluding the higher price tag comfortable,since it actually overlaps the advantages of apartments and homes neglecting the cons of owning them. Which decreases the intensity of the problem to an extent.

Why passive houses are a strong choice.

It's the era of smart homes; homes that are efficient enough to eliminate the troubles of mechanical heating and cooling of a building through smart, time-tested heating and cooling features.

You all must have juggled the improved ideas of contemporary, modern, country-style and traditional style while building your new home. But every one of these styles, as productive as they sound, does not really stand up to the energy efficiency standards. That’s where passive homes come in; as energy saviors that eliminate the need for auxiliary heating and cooling. 

In harmony with the climate

When it gets really hot during hard summer days, it’s hard to cut the growing heat in your interiors. Passive home designs take advantage of the climate to make sure the occupants endure a thermally comfortable temperature in the interior. Understanding the principles of thermal comfort, these homes put you in a comfortable temperature range at all times.

A passive home design

Reduce Carbon emissions

Whether or not global warming is a matter of concern to you, every house plays its part in the alarming rise of carbon emissions around the globe. It is not just factories and vehicles that billow smoke but also our own homes. Ever since the passive homes have come into existence, the energy conservation standards promised are indeed overwhelming. Especially when it claims to slash carbon emissions by 80%, we know there’s push for a better future. 

Save Money

Passive houses make more economic sense than the modern day homes and it is more bang for your money when you decide on building a passive house. Though not cost-efficient during the initial outlay, in the long run passive homes turn more than significant as it lets you cut the cost of energy bills by 90%.

Minimize air leakage, breathe improved air 

It’s not something you want when you have conditioned air in the house let out uncontrollably through cracks and openings. Passive homes minimize air leakage with an effective ventilation system. The sophisticated ventilation system in a passive home efficiently controls the humidity. The air that enters the home is filtered and warmed, and old air is exhausted out.

Intelligent shading and window orientation

Passive homes avoid heat gain through intelligent shading and window orientation. This impressive system provides improved indoor air quality.

A passive home in Germany.

Conclusion

The seemingly more logical idea of a passive house is slowly planting its feet in Indian uptowns. The growing urge to find more sustainable choices of home design has paved way to create a sense of awareness and more passive homes are cropping up.

Today, there's a large chunk of the world's energy gobbled up by modern day homes. It is definitely time we seek sources of sustainability; it's time to get the new builds more efficient.

  

 

 

JKH Signature Apartments

JKH signature is  a premium waterfront apartment project from Nest Infratech. It is located on the banks of Periyar river, Alwaye, Kerala.This dream project is conceived and conceptualized by none other than Dr Javed. K.Hassan, the chairman and founder of the Nest group. It is a much awaited project from Nest with a unique feature, as all the properties will be personally allotted by the Chairman to the aspirants chosen by a panel of experts based on a certain criteria. 

Another great fact is that all these projects are available at a reasonable price range. You can now bring excellence to your existence with the wide range of amenities available at JKH signature apartments. Some examples of such amenities available are discussed below:

Incredible interiors: All the rooms are airy, spacious and trendy. Every room makes a unique style statement and you will surely experience 365 days of delight. 

Lively interiors at JKH Signature apartments

Proximity: This project is fortunately located at one of the prominent locations of Cochin.   It is just 300 metres away from the proposed sea port and 2.5 metres from the proposed metro. The Alwaye railway station and bus stand are also close by. You can go wherever you want in a matter of few minutes like shopping centres, hospitals, recreation areas, and educational institutions. When you have all these facilities around, your life becomes much easier like never before. 

Green Building: As JKH Signature apartments come under the list of green buildings, you can proudly tell the world that you are living in an environmentally responsible building. Enjoy the benefits of a green home especially when you can lower your  operating costs with the water and energy savings right from day one.

Relaxing Zone: After a long tiring day, there are many relaxing zones awaiting you at the JKH signature apartments.The infinity pool with water fall, landscaped gardens, private boat jetty are just few examples for such spaces.

A view of the private boat jetty at JKH Signature apartments

Security: When you are into community living, security is often a major concern. At JKH Signature apartments, you get added benefits like round the clock security. Video door phone with camera outside front door, intrusion alarm system, and guard tour system are the other unique security facilities available at these apartments.

Sports and Recreation: Now kickstart your day by hitting the roof top multi gym. You can  jog in the jog trails or  play some badminton or lawn tennis in the respective courts. If you are fond of indoor games, then also you have separate billiards, table tennis, card and chess rooms. There is also a clubhouse and party area for having a great time with your friends and family. 

Fitness gym at JKH Signature apartments

Parking space: There is a spacious covered car parking area. Apart from that, each home has a special slot for parking  two cars. 

Connectivity: Internet broadband connectivity and intercom facility make connectivity and communication easier like never before.

In-house convenience store: There is an in-house convenience store, you can go there if in case you wish  to buy something. 

Update your life by receiving all these amenities and add life to your living. When you live at JKH signature apartments, you can always keep your heads high!