On October 8, 2005, a high intensity earthquake (magnitude 7.6 on Richter scale) struck the Northern parts of KPK, AJ&K and the surroundings including the capital city of Islamabad. The tremor was felt over large distances from epicenter which included Lahore and New Delhi in India. The epicenter was located near Muzaffarabad, approximately 95Km North East of Islamabad. This incident has been graded as the 9^th greatest earthquake reported since 1812. The earthquake was shallow rooted, caused a serious loss to human lives and property. This tremor induced landslides, dilapidation of private and public buildings, destruction of public sector infrastructure comprising road network, retaining walls, water supply and irrigation works, institutional buildings, electric and communication networks.

Just after the Earthquake, NESPAK was entrusted the massive task of reconstruction and rehabilitation.  A dedicated division, comprising of team of experts from various specialties, was established and named as Disaster Management and Reconstruction Division. Since then, many years after its establishment, Disaster Management & Reconstruction Division with its hard work and experience has come a long way from reconstruction and rehabilitation activities and has made a niche for itself by providing quality engineering consultancy services.  DM&RD employs skilled professionals who excel in providing elite services such as Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Base Urban Planning, Seismic Safe Architectural Structural Design, and Hazard Mapping Using Geographical Information System.

To support implementation of Seismic Safe Structures in inaccessible remote hilly areas, DM&RD also ventured in introducing Alternative Fast Track Technologies like Structural Concrete Insulated Panel (SCIP) Construction and Pre-Engineered Light Gauge Cold Formed Galvanized Steel Structures. Also guide lines for construction of seismic resistant houses using locally available construction materials were developed to facilitate common people residing in Earthquake prone areas.

In addition to all these services, DM&RD is not left behind in providing state of the art Information Technology Services. DM&RD takes pride in developing the largest monitoring platform in Pakistan for Construction management activities. For the ERRA works, Business Process Management software has been developed by in house professionals. The system encores information of all the reconstruction and rehabilitation works spread over area of about 30,000 square KM and comprises of about 5000 construction sites.