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NEWSLETTERS
AWARDS and PRESS RELEASES
EVENTS and SEMINARS
2008.01.26 - CONFINED MASONRY NETWORK - Kanpur, INDIA
Build Change joined the kickoff meeting of the Confined Masonry Network, a group of academic institutions, government officials, practicing engineers, architects and builders from around the world.
2007.10.18 - SEAONC YMF - San Francisco, California, USA
Build Change's founder, Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, and one of our pro bono structural engineers, Tim Hart, presented Build Change's award winning house design process at the monthly meeting of the Younger Members Forum of the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California.
2007.08.19-31 - GSBI - Santa Clara University, San Jose, California, USA
Build Change's founder, Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, was selected to
participate in the Global Social Benefit Incubator, an intensive two-week
residential program at Santa Clara University that enables successful
technology innovators to scale and achieve sustainability. The GSBI is
presented by the University's Center for Science, Technology and Society and
the Leavey School of Business Administration.
2007.07.26-28 - DISASTER SYMPOSIUM - Padang, West Sumatra, INDONESIA
"Performance of Confined Masonry
Houses During Earthquakes in Indonesia: Successes, Problems and Solutions" presentation at the International Symposium on Disaster in Indonesia: Problems and
Solutions held in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
2006.08.10 and 2007.01.18 - BRR HOUSING WORKSHOPS, Banda Aceh, INDONESIA
Build Change delivered invited lectures on "Improving Construcion Quality in Post-Tsunami HOusing Reconstruction" and "Seismic Hazard in Aceh".
2006.05.18 UN-HABITAT SPECIAL SEMINAR, Banda Aceh, INDONESIA
UN-HABITAT hosted an evening session on Build Change's Earthquake-Resistant Design and Construction Guideline for Confined Masonry Houses in Aceh.
2006.04.20 - 8th NCEE, San Francisco, California, USA
"Sustainable Earthquake-Resistant Housing Reconstruciton in Tsunami-Devastated Aceh, Indonesia", Invited Lecture in Special Session on Low-Cost Housing for Developing Countries.
2005.01.18-20 - 1st ICUDR - Kobe, JAPAN
Build Change Theory of Change was included as one of the recommendations from the 1st International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction, Kobe, Japan, January 18-20, 2005.
2004.10.02 - ESW - Stanford University, USA
"Sustainable Disaster-Resistant Housing Construction in Developing Countries" Presented at Engineers for a Sustainable World Conference.
2004.10.01 - Sustainable Resources 2004 - University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
"Sustainable Disaster-Resistant Housing Construction in Developing Countries" Presented at Sustainable Resources 2004.
2004.08.05 - 13th WCEE - Vancouver, CANADA
"Housing Reconstruction and Retrofitting After the 2001 Kachchh, India Earthquake". See Resources page for paper.
2004.06.06 - IIEES - Tehran, IRAN
"Housing Reconstruction and Retrofitting Following the 2001 Bhuj, India and 2003 Bam, Iran Earthquakes: Design, Implementation and Long-Term Impacts, Invited Lecture.
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June 30, 2008: Reconnaissance to Sichuan
Build Change's Founder, Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, visited the earthquake-affected area to understand why buildings failed and make plans to support earthquake-resistant housing reconstruction. Using unconfined precast concrete plank floors on top of unreinforced masonry walls caused most of the devastation (foreground in photo below), but some confined masonry buildings performed flawlessly (background).
Visit the Technical Resources page under post-earthquake recon reports for more information, and support the homeowners to rebuild earthquake-resistant houses so they never have to face such tragedy again. DONATE NOW
May 12, 2008: Devastation in China
69,185 killed. 374,171 injured. 18,467 missing. More than 7.79 million houses destroyed and 24.5 million damaged. 5 million homeless, and 10 million now living below the poverty line after a M7.9 earthquake.
January 28, 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.
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