diff --git a/workspaces/Cargo.toml b/workspaces/Cargo.toml
index f6ba5510..9ae5a78f 100644
--- a/workspaces/Cargo.toml
+++ b/workspaces/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ near-jsonrpc-primitives = "0.5"
 near-jsonrpc-client = { version = "0.1", features = ["sandbox"] }
 near-sandbox-utils = "0.1"
 
+[build-dependencies]
+near-sandbox-utils = "0.1"
+
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
 libc = "0.2"
 
diff --git a/workspaces/build.rs b/workspaces/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9ae0eb36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/workspaces/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+fn main() {
+    near_sandbox_utils::install().expect("Could not install sandbox");
+}