Integrated Research Application and Development IRAD Pvt. Ltd was registered as a private company on 12 Feb 1992 (as firm no 1741) in Nepal under His Majesty Government of Nepal (HMG Nepal), the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supply by the office of the Company Registrar. The objective of the company is to provide intelligent consultancy services in different development projects in Nepal.

In the past, IRAD has provided consultancy services in planning, survey, design and implementation of engineering projects especially in the field of Roads, Airports, Information Technology, and in Hydro-Power sectors. IRAD has also successfully competed projects with the application of CAD and GIS in different project studies. Apart from this, IRAD has been also involved in the construction supervision of roads and airports. IRAD has developed different types of customized software including GIS (ARC/VIEW). In this context, the Computerized Planning and Design Model named as Optimum Road Design Model (ORDM) is widely used in the national as well as International Consulting field. This is one of the major engineering software developed by IRAD. The fulltime experts involved in IRAD are Civil Engineers, Transport Experts, System Analysts, Computer Programmers, Sociologists/Economists, GIS Assistants, and CAD Assistants. IRAD is also equipped with instruments, hardware and software, permanent office space (its own Building), vehicles, GIS data, maps and information of multidimensional nature of the country. IRAD has provided consulting services to several national as well as international organizations like World Bank (WB), UNDP, Asian Development Bank (ADB), DFID (UK), USAID, and other Governmental, semi governmental and Non-Governmental Organizations involved in multi-disciplinary development projects. IRAD was associated in some of the significant project studies in Nepal with other international companies such as: ND LEA, Canada, WSP UK, SMEC, Australia, FINMAP, Finland, and ITECO, Switzerland, etc

IRAD is organized, owned and managed by full time senior professional headed by a Board of Directors with a full time Managing Director (MD), Mr. Mohan Kumar Dangal (M.Sc, Highway Engineering, Ph.D Candidate) from the establishment of the Company to date. Mr. Dangal started his carrier in His Majesty’s Government of Nepal as a Highway Engineer and later switched to consulting business. Mr. Dangal possesses working experiences as UNV to Experts in different countries such as: Russia, Syria, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Philippines and Bhutan. Rich experience of Mr. Dangal in the field of IT, Roads, small hydro-power projects and airports has uplifted the capability of IRAD to a greater extent.

Major Areas of Activities
Owing to its effective Team Work and dedication IRAD has been successful to contribute significantly to the prime engineering needs of the country and enhance research works on several fields. Main focus area of IRAD has been the following broad areas of development needs:

Major Services
IRAD has been one of the Leading Research Agencies in Nepal in the field of Engineering Software Development. It provides different professional services which are as follows: