Experience the power of collaboration and engage in real projects with the most insightful leaders from the building industry
How Crowdsolving Works for Professionals
Access to real projects
Access to projects from top developers, NGOs, government organizations
Innovative Collaboration
Collaboration and knowledge amongst an interdisciplinary community in the built environment
Network
Work with top building industry professionals and experts around the globe
Credentials & Exposure
Build your credentials through Build Academy courses and working with renown brands and organizations
Benefits
Crowd-solving challenges leverage our diverse community from around the world with different backgrounds and skills to work together on creating innovative solutions for projects relating to the built environment.
Crowd-solving combines research, education, design, and implementation to solve real-world problems. We do this by empowering a global community of professionals, providing them with a venue to participate in projects with global impact.
Work on real life projects
Depth of knowledge and crowd-sourcing leading to targeted and feasible solutions
Spend your time wisely
Time effective project design leading to rapid achievement of outcomes
Learn by doing
Apply course knowledge on hands on projects
Build a great community
Participatory approach leading to project design involving communities and grass root level reach
Success Story
Project Exhibits
Emergency Shelters
Architects, engineers and other professionals must take action in the development of the global emergency response to the natural or man-made disasters that are increasingly occurring in different part of the world. In times of crisis, the whole world should act to help war refugees and environmental migrants with the recovery efforts. Designers have the opportunity to propose solutions that can minimize the suffering and prevent the deaths of thousands of people.
Wars have devastating effect on people’s lives. By designing refugee camps, we will provide an alternative for the people who lost their homes and had to escape, leaving everything behind. The design of a refugee camp must minimize the already made psychological damage to the refugees by creating a welcoming environment and a new temporary home.
Natural disasters are happening more often due to climate change. We can’t do much to stop them, but as architects and engineers, we can offer a temporary solution by designing transitional shelters for the recovery period. The 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the 2012 hurricane Sandy in the USA, the 2013 typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, are just some of the examples of the devastation effect of natural disasters. We need to take action.
The goal of this online course is to generate designs for emergency shelters for the victims of wars and natural disasters. The participants in this course will design affordable and easy to build shelters, which could be implemented by OCHA, UNHCR, WBG, and other international organisations. We will engage with a team of architects, planners, engineers, and social workers from all over the world. After the course, the projects and instructions will be placed on an open source platform, so anyone can download and use them.
Resilient Schools
On November 9, 2013, typhoon Haiyan hit the Phillipines, causing more than 5,000 deaths and destroying the homes and cities for millions. Natural disasters are happening more and more often due to climate change. We can’t do much to stop them, but as architects we can help with the recovery and to build shelters that would withstand them.
The goal of this online course is to generate design ideas for resilient schools for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan and other natural disasters. The participants in this course design schools, which are to be implemented by the Department of Education and Architecture for Humanity in the Philippines. We engage with a team of architects, planners, engineers, and social workers. The projects and instructions were placed on BuildAcademy.com, so anyone can download and use them.
An international jury select the best projects, which could be built. Weekly lectures and daily discussions were conducted on our forum. A team of professors, consultants, and teaching assistants led by Prof. Ivan Shumkov guided and assisted all students in their work.
FAQ
What is crowd-solving?
Crowd-solving is a methodology that integrated education and traditional crowdsourcing which result in a high quality projects and proposals. Traditional crowdsourcing often results in a high number of projects of low quality that under deliver because there is no interaction between the client and the participants. Through crowd-solving participants receive tailors base education pertinent to the specific project and clients have the ability to provide iterative feedback through out the design process in an effective way.
How will building industry professionals create good design solutions through an online process?
Our crowd-solving process combines the efforts of building industry professionals from around the globe with subject matter experts on specific projects, industry professors, and partnering companies.
What is Build Academy?
- Build Academy is an online marketplace providing professional education and solutions for the building industry: architecture, real estate, engineering, construction and building products. We harness the collective wisdom of building industry experts from around the globe to transform buildings and infrastructure.
Who can participate in a crowd-solving challenge?
- Any professional working in the building industry is allowed to participate. Generally many of our professionals are in architecture, design, real estate, engineering and construction and are early to mid career from all around the globe. We group together project teams based on a mix of skills and expertise to produce the best results.
