NSET was founded on June 18, 1993 and registered at the District Administration Office, Kathmandu, on April 28, 1994, and at the Social Welfare Council on August 10, 1998.

[2][3] In order to combat the growing risks posed by a devastating earthquake in Nepal in the near future, NSET seeks to make builders and citizens aware of affordable construction techniques that can significantly reduce seismic risk.

NSET's activities target the informal builders of such edifices: the organisation conducts demonstrations using a 'Shake Table', a tool that shows the effects of an earthquake on scale models of two buildings, one built using traditional methods and one incorporating earthquake engineering.

The Shake Table demonstration has been given to builders, masons, engineers, policy makers and health and disaster response personnel and is now being used in India, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan as well.

Proceedings of the ICE – Structures and Buildings, Volume 65 Issue 6, January 2012, pp. 273–286.