diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index fb367ecb5..5b205e39e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ install:
   - if [[ $USE_TCMALLOC == TRUE ]]; then until sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:agent-8131/ppa && sudo apt-get -qq update && sudo apt-get -qq install libgoogle-perftools-dev; do echo retry; done; fi
   - until sudo apt-get -qq install libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev; do echo retry; done
   - until sudo apt-get -qq install cmake; do echo retry; done
+  - sudo wget http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/203889738/bin/ninja -O /usr/bin/ninja;
   - until sudo apt-get -qq install libstdc++-4.8-dev; do echo retry; done
   - if [[ $CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER == g++-4.8 ]]; then until sudo apt-get -qq install g++-4.8; do echo retry; done fi
   - if [[ $CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER == clang++-3.3 ]]; then until sudo apt-get -qq install clang-3.3; do echo retry; done fi
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ before_script:
 script:
   - mkdir -p build
   - cd build
-  - cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER} ../src
+  - cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE} -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER} -G Ninja ../src
   - if [[ $CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE == DEBUG || $CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE == RELEASE || $CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE == TESTCOV ]]; then
        SITE=Ubuntu12.04@Travis;
        GIT_COMMIT=`git log --oneline -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1`;
@@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ script:
        sed -i "s/^Site:.*/Site:$SITE/" $CONFIG_FILE;
        sed -i "s/BuildName:.*/BuildName:$BUILD_NAME/" $CONFIG_FILE;
        if [[ $MEMCHECK == TRUE ]]; then
-           make;
+           ninja;
        else
            ctest -D ExperimentalConfigure;
            sed -i "s/^Site:.*/Site:$SITE/" $CONFIG_FILE;