HEALTH & RESILIENCE
Designing homes that can withstand disasters
Build Change prevents the loss of life and housing caused by disasters. They retrofit existing homes and construct new, disaster-resistant homes in partnership with builders, homeowners, engineers, and government officials.
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Build Change has increased its impact with the support of Autodesk funding, talent, and technology since 2014. In addition, Autodesk’s technology allowed Build Change to drastically reduce the length of the design process. For example, Dynamo and Revit helped reduce the time needed to generate and check 3D models from one week to half a day.
In 2017, Build Change hosted Autodesk-funded interns in their Colombia office to turn 2D models into 3D models. This enabled the engineering team to perform seismic retrofits of existing informal houses. Build Change has used this process to implement a pilot project aiming to improve and strengthen 1,250 homes as a first step in scaling up resilient housing efforts in the city.
Redshift
Build Change retrofits homes in Bogotá, Colombia, using an innovative, cloud-based tool that allows the organization to ensure structural safety.
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Autodesk Foundation
Build Change is harnessing the power of Autodesk software to retrofit and strengthen homes in Bogota, the earthquake-prone capital of Colombia with 8 million inhabitants.
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Autodesk University
Build Change engineers use Autodesk tools to automate designs for retrofitting informal housing at scale.
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