What We Do – Technology
Build Change recognizes that the right engineering and construction technology must be locally available, widely known, and cost-competitive. Digital technology can be leveraged to create huge efficiencies, to support with scaling resilient housing and schools.
Read more below to find out how we can help you drive the supply of and demand for resilient housing and schools through three key technical pathways:
- Digital tools for scale
- Improving codes, design, & construction
- Capacity building, workforce development and job creation
Digital tech platforms
By using digital technologies, we are able to make more homes safer at a faster rate.
- Using geospatial data for rapid assessments
- Capturing and sharing assessment data
- Developing apps for homeowner awareness
- Automating design steps through building information modeling (BIM) and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Digital tools for construction monitoring
- Implementing an end-to-end MIS across the 6-step construction value chain
Digital technology is continuing to transform the scope of what is possible for resilient housing programs and add efficiencies to each stage of the six-step construction value chain:
Purpose-driven partnerships with Autodesk, CISCO, IBM, and Microsoft have advanced solutions for millions of people living in vulnerable housing today.
The Build Change technical assistance platform, BCtap, is an end-to-end solution that pairs technology with subject matter expertise to take resilient housing programs to scale.
The simple Digital Home Strengthening Tool in BCtap can be applied to efficiently scale access to financing and technical assistance for incremental improvements in housing resilience.
ISAC-SIMO, your Intelligent Supervision Assistant for Construction, packs important construction quality assurance checks into a convenient mobile app.
The tool harnesses the power of machine learning and image processing to provide feedback on specific construction elements such as masonry walls and reinforced concrete columns.
ISAC-SIMO is open source.
Engineering, Design & Construction
Pioneering safer housing through better design & construction
Build Change is home to some of the world’s foremost authorities on seismic and disaster-resilient engineering. Our team excels at providing engineering and capacity-building excellence in the assessment, design, construction, and retrofitting of low-rise buildings in challenging post-disaster and vulnerable environments. Core to our success is a history of championing women to thrive as leaders of reconstruction and as engineers within our organization.
Training, Creating Jobs and Workforce Development
Capacity building for sustainable change
Anyone can learn the fundamentals of disaster-resistant building construction. Engineers, builders, government officials, homeowners, vocational students, and building materials producers have all been participants in training on the design and construction principles of safe buildings. By reaching all of the various people involved, we ensure that structures are built to be safer. Training improves local knowledge and skills for building safer homes and schools in accordance with government standards and generally accepted principles of disaster-resistant construction.
Key to the technology category of our theory of change is workforce development and job creation. We prioritize training local builders and materials suppliers to deliver code-compliant construction according to the requirements of each program. To enable a larger portion of the workforce to meet qualifications, we provide opportunities for construction worker capacity building. Through partnerships with public and private programs and schools to provide training, licensing, and certification, we promote and encourage these learning opportunities.
What We Do
People
Drive and incentivize homeowner demand for resilient housing- Learn more
Policy
Elevating disaster-resilient housing on global, national, and local agendas- Learn more
Money
Expand funding and lending for construction, operations, and systems change- Learn more
Technology
Technology continues to transform the scope of what is possible- Learn more
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