At home in Noida

The Grand Arista offers luxury, amenities and high-speed lifts.

Vijay Verma, CEO, Sunworld Group, shares insights on The Grand Arista project in Noida and the vertical-transportation-related aspects with your author. . . . Editor

The Grand Arista at Sector 168 in Noida offers 972 flats in 10 towers on a 10-acre corner plot. The floorplan range available to choose from includes studios, three bedroom/hall/kitchen (BHK) plus servant quarters, four BHK plus servant quarters, five BHK plus servant quarters, penthouse, duplex and shops.

Phase 1 comprises towers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 10, while Phase 2 encompasses towers 5, 7, 8 and 9. Partial construction is done and is set to restart this year. The offer of possession of Towers 2, 3, 4 and 10 has started with completion certificates and occupation certificates received. Offer of possession of Towers 1 and 6 were expected to have recently begun. 

The studios are 685 ft², with Tower 10 having eight units per floor and six lifts. The three-BHK units are available in 1,955-, 2,185-, 2,230- and 2,275-ft² options, with towers 1, 4, 6 and 9 having six units per floor. Tower 9 has four lifts, and 1, 4 and 6 have three each. Four-BHK units are available in 2,740- and 3,590-ft² sizes in Towers 2, 3, 7 and 8, with two units per floor and three lifts per building. 

The five-BHK units span 4,810 ft² each, with two per floor in Tower 5, which has three lifts. Penthouses of 6,230 and 7,530 ft² are on the 17th and 18th floors in towers 2 and 3. Duplexes of 4,555, 4,940 and 7,270 ft² are on the ground and first floors of Towers 1-9, in nose units only, except tower 5.

The project follows a British Classical Architecture theme designed by Architect Hafeez Contractor and is a luxury development conceptualized for the high gentry. The Grand Arista is a low-density project with ample open area, a reverse-osmosis water treatment plant and membrane bioreactor-based sewage treatment plant.

Lifestyle amenities include a club with a squash court; a gym; a swimming pool; a sauna; a banquet hall; a library; table tennis; billiards; and outdoor game courts for lawn tennis, badminton and basketball. There is also a cricket practice pitch and children’s play area. 

High-speed Toshiba elevators have been installed in the towers of The Grand Arista, with Towers 1-9 each including a service elevator. Tower 10 has a total of six elevators, with two of these service lifts. The capacity of passenger elevators is 952 kg (14 persons) with a speed of 2.5 m/s. Each service elevator has a capacity of 884 kg. All elevators are fitted with an emergency rescue device system, an alarm button and a fireman switch. The door height is 2.4 m.

CEO Profile

Vijay Verma, CEO of the Sunworld Group, is an Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad alumnus with more than 20 years’ experience in providing strategic and functional project management services to the private sector, government organizations and leading nonprofit organizations. His specific areas of interest are corporate strategy, leadership, team development, change management, talent acquisition and management, operational research and management, fraud and risk management, project management, revenue management, decision analysis and business systems development. He has carried out numerous consulting assignments in the private sector on cost-saving and resource-use optimization for many companies and drawn turnaround blueprints for their long-term growth.