diff --git a/artifacts/run_build.sh b/artifacts/run_build.sh
index a7fd307e5..2115e2674 100755
--- a/artifacts/run_build.sh
+++ b/artifacts/run_build.sh
@@ -41,3 +41,8 @@ make 2>&1 | tee -a build.log
 cd $root_dir
 cd "$benchmark_dir/multi-head_attention/fractaltensor/"
 make 2>&1 | tee -a build.log
+
+# build the bigbird attention benchmark
+cd $root_dir
+cd "$benchmark_dir/blocked_sparse_attention/fractaltensor"
+make 2>&1 | tee -a build.log