National Geographic Channel
AIRING MARCH 2010! "China Quake!" Co-production with NGCI and Yuanchun Media
Build Change featured in this documentary on the May 12, 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China. Check out the preview HERE…
World Vision Report
January 23, 2010. "Build Change" by Chad Bouchard
World Vision Report profiles Build Change's technical assistance programs in West Sumatra, Indonesia. READ IT HERE…
New York Times
January 18, 2010. "Managing Disasters with Small Steps" by Henry Fountain
The bottom-up method is best for rebuilding after disasters. READ IT HERE…
Jakarta Globe
October 14, 2009. "Building Post-Quake Hope in Padang" by Lisa Siregar
The Jakarta Globe features Build Change after a fundraising event for safe reconstruction after the Padang Earthquake. READ IT HERE…
UN HABITAT Magazine, Urban World
July 2009. "After the quake: how self-build is the key to Sichuan's recovery" by Maya Alexandri
Learning is the key to development. READ IT HERE…
UC Berkeley College of Engineering Magazine, Forefront
Spring 2009. "Home Safe Home" by Rachel Shafer
Build Change's founder and UC Berkeley graduate, Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, is featured in the Spring Issue. READ IT HERE…
All Things Considered, National Public Radio
May 5, 2009. "Building Safer Homes Before the Next China Quake" by Melissa Block
Build Change's post-earthquake housing reconstruction program is featured on All Things Considered's coverage of the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan, China. Read the text HERE and LISTEN HERE…
Christian Science Monitor
May 10, 2009. "China quake: From rubble, civil society builds" by Peter Ford
"Volunteerism stands strong one year later - and has even won support from local authorities normally wary of grass-roots movements." Read the text HERE…
BBC Website
May 11, 2009. "Rebuilding China's quake-hit zone" by Michael Bristow
Article quotes Build Change's Founder: "It gives me a lot of hope because the central government is really trying to enforce building codes". Read the text HERE…
Stanford Social Innovation Conversations Podcast
January 2009. Featuring Build Change Founder, Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, after receiving the Equality Category Cash Prize at the 2008 Tech Awards. LISTEN HERE…
Build Change Wins 2008 Tech Award Equality Category Cash Prize
November 12, 2008. At the 2008 Tech Awards for Technology Benefiting Humanity, Build Change won the Katherine M. Swanson Equality Category Cash Prize. Links to Press Coverage:
Build Change Laureate Video
NBC Bay Area TV, "Applied Materials Presents: The Tech Awards" Segment 1
NBC Bay Area TV, "Applied Materials Presents: The Tech Awards" Segment 2
NBC Bay Area TV, "Applied Materials Presents: The Tech Awards" Segment 3
NBC Bay Area TV, "Applied Materials Presents: The Tech Awards" Segment 4
CNET Video "Tech Awards honor techy solutions for developing world" by Kara Tsuboi
CNET News - Daily Podcast "Tech innovations that won big" by Leslie Katz
CNET News - Cutting Edge "Awards go to groups bringing power, homes, health to poor"
Global X Video on SocialEdge
January 28, 2008. "It's not the earthquake that kills people, it's the building collapsing"
San Francisco Chronicle Article on Global Social Benefit Incubator
August 28, 2007. "Santa Clara course helps socially conscious entrepreneurs succeed"
Grace Matters Radio Interview
March 11, 2007. The Foundations of Home
Person of the Week on abcNEWS World News Tonight
March 10, 2006. Build Change's Founder, Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, honored as Person of the Week on abcNEWS World News Tonight. Watch the video here.
2009.09.17 - CONFINED MASONRY and BUILD CHANGE - San Francisco, California, USA
Build Change's Founder and CEO, Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, and Tim Hart, senior associate and structural engineer at Forell/Elsesser, teamed up to discuss confined masonry and Build Change at a SEAONC/EERI mini-seminar.
2008.01.26 - CONFINED MASONRY NETWORK - Kanpur, INDIA
Build Change is a foundin member of the Confined Masonry Network, a group of academic institutions, government officials, practicing engineers, architects and builders from around the world. The first meeting was held at IIT-Kanpur in India.
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 Construction 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"
2004.10.01 - Sustainable Resources 2004 - University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
"Sustainable Disaster-Resistant Housing Construction in Developing Countries"
2004.08.05 - 13th WCEE - Vancouver, CANADA
"Housing Reconstruction and Retrofitting After the 2001 Kachchh, India Earthquake"
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.
