About Build Change:
? US 501(c)3 international non-profit social enterprise with programs in Indonesia, China and Haiti ? Founded in 2004 by Elizabeth Hausler, bricklayer and Ph.D. earthquake engineer from University of California, Berkeley ? Goals: Design earthquake resistant houses; train builders, homeowners, government officials and engineers to build them; change construction practice permanently ? Mission: Greatly reduce deaths, injuries, economic losses from housing collapses due to earthquakes in developing countries ? Impacts: 73,000 people living in houses improved by Build Change, over 12,000 people trained; no damage to minimum standard houses in 2009 earthquake; governments adopting Build Change model
Resource collections
- Evaluating humanitarian action
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience
