Build Change

Build Change saves lives by preventing housing loss in disasters. Our mission is to greatly reduce deaths, injuries, and economic losses caused by housing and school collapses due to earthquakes and climate-induced events such as typhoons, flooding, and fire. Build Change works to transform the systems for regulating, financing, building, and improving houses around the world. Our vision is that (1) all houses and schools built with inputs from Build Change are resistant to earthquakes and climate-induced events, and (2) building codes are enforced or construction practices are permanently changed so that houses and schools built in the absence of external funding and technical support are also earthquake and climate resilient. (Less)