Build Change saves lives in earthquakes and typhoons.

Our mission is to greatly reduce deaths, injuries and economic losses caused by housing and school collapses due to earthquakes and typhoons in emerging nations.


JUAN CABALLERO | COLOMBIA | HOUSING RETROFITS

TRANSFORMING VULNERABLE HOMES IN COLOMBIA

Juan Caballero, who leads Build Change’s work in Latin America, describes the opportunities to retrofit homes as scale in Colombia. (Spanish with Subtitles)

ELIZABETH HAUSLER | SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP | SKOLL FOUNDATION

SKOLL AWARD FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Dr. Elizabeth Hausler and Build Change were named one of the 2017 recipients of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.


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Build Change saves lives in earthquakes and windstorms by working with people in emerging nations to build homes and schools that will protect their families and children.


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Partners

Build Change’s partners around the globe are our teammates in the fight for resilient, accessible, equitable housing worldwide. Working together, this global coalition brings the knowledge, experience, and commitment necessary to protect neighborhoods and even entire countries from future disasters.

Awards

In 2019 Inaugural Global Engineering Professional Award, Mortenson Center for Global Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder

In 2018 IBM Call for Code Runner Up (with Build Change).

In 2018 University of California, Berkeley Campanile Excellence in Achievement Award.

In March 2017 Build Change’s Founder and CEO Elizabeth Hausler received the Skoll Award.