diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 24b2d2cb6..7ea3cc04c 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - run:
           name: build packages
-          command: yarn lerna:prepublish --concurrency=1
+          command: export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=8192" && yarn lerna:prepublish --concurrency=1
 
       - save_cache:
           paths: