Dr Shanker Dhakal is its founding leader. ETC Institute Australia, Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (formerly GHEaSES International) is a collaborative R&D company of infrastructure engineering and environment, currently registered and active in Australia. Established in later 2012, GHEaSES International has a prestigious and inclusive board and exceptionally rich network, havin
g been led by Dr. Shanker Dhakal since its inception. It engages specialists from all across the world. The company identifies and solves engineering, economic and social problems related to civil infrastructure and disaster management. The company has now both full and part time staff including research interns in its Kathmandu office. Aimed at achieving commercialization of innovative ideas and research, and produce 'cadres' of research engineers, business analysts and R&D entrepreneurs under a greater umbrella of the proposed G. Infra Entrepreneurs (GIE), GHEaSES is well known for its historic rockfall protection study at Siddhababa area along Siddhartha Highway in 2012, slope hazard risk modelling research project of 2013, investigation of building structures built on hill slopes of Nepal in 2014, in addition to a number of research and consulting projects related to road survey, building design and energy efficient mechanical system experimentation conducted over the several years. GHEaSES has as an excellent track record of sponsoring, organizing and participating seminars, workshop and conferences in Nepal, the CEESDev-2014 (Conf. on Energy Economics and Sustainable Development) being the largest one. Lately, GHEaSES MD, Dr. Shanker Dhakal, convened another historic and collaborative event, NEEF-2015 (Nepal Earthquake Engineering Forum) organized on June 13 in Kathmandu and led the reconstruction movement called NRM.
