Nespak Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Project

Urban Planning in NESPAK Islamabad

NESPAK Islamabad, thriving to achieve excellence in the field of Urban Planning, has indeed proven its mark already through remarkable designing and master planning of numerous projects. Urban planning: a process of guiding and controlling the development and use of land, with the aim of promoting the health, safety, convenience and general welfare of the community. It seeks to promote the right development in the right place and at the right time so as to bring about a better organized, more efficient and more desirable place to live and work.
The team of Town Planners working at the NESPAK House Islamabad are determined at achieving the same. They are highly qualified and well equipped with the latest technologies to handle all types of challenges coming their way. A combination of the golden principles of sustainability, beauty, convenience and safety of the urban locality coupled with the advanced technologies of Geographic Information Systems and its applications, has indeed enabled NESPAK Islamabad to stand out from the rest, when it comes to developing sustainable urban communities.

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Role of NESPAK in ERRA Project

	The deadly earthquake that hit northern Pakistan on 8th October, left thousands dead and millions homeless. With the rescue and relief activities over, the foremost priority of the Government of Pakistan was the rehabilitation of the shattered lives of the fateful people. Understanding the gravity of the situation Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) was therefore established, to realize the necessity of the hour. ERRA appointed NESPAK as General Consultants for their mega project, “Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project”. Apart from other responsibilities, the redevelopment and rehabilitation of four towns, namely Bagh, Muzaffarabad, Rawalakot and Balakot were identified as top priority urban development projects.

	The Redevelopment and Rehabilitation planning of Bagh was assigned to Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, whereas, the Redevelopment and Rehabilitation Planning of Muzaffarabad was given to Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) Study Team, comprising of Japanese renowned consultants. The Master Planning and detailed designing of Ground Zero; New Balakot Town at Bakriyal and the Master Planning of Rawalakot Town has been assigned to NESPAK.

The approach towards planning at NESPAK includes the social, physical and economic dimensions of urban planning, determined at realizing the utmost desired. It may be elucidated as Catherinre Bauer has expressed in “Social Questions in Housing and Town Planning”

By and large, you can only want what you know….what we really want to know therefore, is what people would want if they understood the full range of possibilities on the one hand, and all the practical limitations on the other.