Build Change is an international non-profit social enterprise

for Tsunami Survivors and counting!! So far in the area devastated by the tsunami in Indonesia, we have built 33 houses by hiring and training local builders, and improved the design and construction of over 2,500 houses built by partner organizations. For more information about our Aceh programs and partners, click here.

Build Change designs and trains builders to build houses that are :

SAFE - the houses do not cause deaths and injuries during earthquakes
SATISFACTORY - culturally appropriate and comfortable
SUSTAINABLE - built with materials and earthquake-resistant technology that will continue to be used after our program ceases.

For Technical Drawings and Construction Guidelines, click here.

February, 2008 : On Video!
Elizabeth Hausler explains to Global X that she was finishing her Ph.D. in engineering at Berkeley when an earthquake hit India and killed 20,000 people. That's when she realized that "it's not the earthquake that kills people, it's the building collapsing."

See the video.

April 2008:
Position Opening Build Change has an immediate opening for a Program Manager/Structural Engineer in our West Sumatra office. See the Position Description and apply by May 7, 2008.

131,029 People Killed or Missing in Indonesia from the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami... Build Change's house design for Aceh wins an Excellence in Structural Engineering Award from the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California... Build Change Provides Design and Construction Inputs on over 2,500 Houses Built by Other Organizations in the Aceh Tsunami Reconstruction... Build Change Trains over 130 Builders in Aceh, Permanently Improving Their Construction Skills... 5,782 Indonesians Killed in the May 27, 2006 Earthquake near Yogyakarta... Earthquakes Don't Kill People, Buildings Do... 52 People Killed and 15,000 Houses Destroyed in the March 6, 2007 Earthquakes in West Sumatra... Build Change opens an office in West Sumatra and works with homeowners who lost houses in the March 6, September 12, and September 13 earthquakes... Keys to Good Performance of Confined Masonry Buildings in Earthquakes: Configuration, Connections and Construction Quality (the three C's)... 25 People Killed and 16,774 Homes Destroyed in the September 12 and 13 2007 Earthquakes in West Sumatra, Bengkulu and the Mentawai Islands... "Nature did not build the houses which collapsed" Rousseau, 1756... Build Change Publishes a Design and Construction Guideline for Confined Masonry Houses in Indonesia...

HELP 10,000 families rebuild their houses in West
Sumatra, Indonesia.

How you can help...