September 10, 2008: Build Change Named 2008 Tech Awards Laureate by the Tech Museum of Innovation
Build Change was named a 2008 Tech Awards Laureate in the Equality category for the Tech Awards for Technology Benefiting Humanity, a signature program of the Tech Museum of Innovation. Read the Press Release.

August 1, 2008: Build Change Opens an Office in Sichuan, China
With support of Mercy Corps and Echoing Green, Build Change is providing technical assistance and training to homeowners and builders affected by the May 12 earthquake. Join our team by applying for the Sichuan Program Manager/Structural Engineer position.

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.