Prof. Dr. Konrad Graser

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer, Digital Building Processes and Management

Experience

• Doctoral Candidate
  ETH Zürich, Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management (IBI), Prof. Daniel M. Hall, Chair of Innovative and Industrial Construction
  10 / 2018 - 05 / 2023
• Project Collaborator HiLo NEST Unit
  ROK Architekten, Zurich
  2019 - 2021
• Project Manager, Lead Architect DFAB HOUSE
  NCCR Digital Fabrication, ETH Zürich
  08 / 2015 - 09 / 2018
• Project Manager Facade Engineering
  Werner Sobek Stuttgart GmbH
  09 / 2012 - 07 / 2015
• VDC Manager
  SHoP Construction LLC, New York, USA
  01 / 2011 - 06 / 2012
• Adjunct Professor, Architecture
  CCA (California College of the Arts), San Francisco
  2011 - 2012
• Project Manager, Senior Design Associate
  SHoP Architects, New York, USA
  12 / 2004 - 12 / 2010
• Teaching Assistant, Graduate Design Studio
  Yale School of Architecture
  2009 - 2009

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Dr. sc. ETH Zurich / Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
  ETH Zürich, Deptartment of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
  2018 - 2023
• Diploma / Architecture
  ETH Zürich
  2000 - 2004
• Intermediate diploma / Architecture
  TU Munich
  1997 - 2000

Continuing Education

• Management Summer School
  Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Rotterdam / NL
  2021
• Certificate Project Management for Research
  ETH Zurich
  2020
• Certificate course Project Management
  Institut Fortbildung Bau, Baden-Württemberg / DE
  2014
• LEED Accredited Professional
  US Green Building Council / USA
  2008

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8129-6787

Social media

• Linkedin
• Researchgate

Media presence

BBC Documentary DFAB HOUSE

Projects

• National Teaching and Learning Platform for Ecological Sustainability in Architecture / Project leader / ongoing
• Swiss Digital Circular Construction Ecosystem / Project leader / ongoing
• Intelligent Configurator: Rapid Design Generation and Optimization in Modern Methods of Construction / Project leader / completed
• Tor Alva - White Tower: Project management of 3D printing demonstrator on the building scale / Project leader / completed
• Swiss IPD: A practical framework for Integrated Project Delivery in Switzerland / Co-project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Tan, T., Graser, K., Walzer, A. N., Ng, M. S., & Hall, D. M. (2025). Exploring the implementation of digital fabrication in construction : combining system approaches and a revelatory case study from Switzerland. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(12). https://doi.org/10.1061/jcemd4.coeng-16680
• Walzer, A., Tan, T., Graser, K., & Hall, D. M. (2024). Bug or feature? : institutional misalignments between construction technology and venture capital. Construction Management and Economics, 43(2), 130–152. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2024.2401818
• Kucan, G., Tan, T., Grossmann, D., Graser, K., & Hall, D. M. (2024). Sustainable future-proofing healthcare facilities : a modular and adaptable design approach. Journal of Management in Engineering, 40(6). https://doi.org/10.1061/JMENEA.MEENG-5942
• Graser, K., Walzer, A. N., Hunhevicz, J., Jähne, R., Seiler, F., Wüst, R., & Hall, D. M. (2023). Qualitative technology evaluation of digital fabrication with concrete : conceptual framework and scoreboard. Automation in Construction, 154(104964). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2023.104964

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Tan, T., Hall, D., Papadonikolaki, E., Mills, G., & Graser, K. (2025). Project delivery methods to digital fabrication in architecture : a comparative case study from a modularity perspective. In W. Lu & C. J. Anumba (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Smart Built Environment (pp. 46–63). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003383840-5

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Petojevic, Z., Graser, K., Olender, M., Mateescu, M., Urech, A., Schulze, H., & Huber, M. (2025). Introducing the IPD Cookbook for effective project delivery : a quick reference guide to principles, values, and instruments [Conference paper]. In V. Obradović & N. Ivanišević (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th International Congress on Project Management “Collective Intelligence of Professional Project Management“ (pp. 125–135). IPMA Serbia. https://doi.org/10.56889/gmjx3259
• Cao, J., Pantazis, E., Sordini, F., Curletto, G., & Graser, K. (2025). A scalable strategy for configurator adoption in residential projects [Conference paper]. In E. Petrova, M. Srećković, P. Meda, R. K. Soman, J. Beetz, J. McArthur, & D. Hall (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2025 European Conference on Computing in Construction & 42nd International CIB W78 Conference on Information Technology for Construction (pp. 1363–1368). European Council on Computing in Construction. https://doi.org/10.35490/EC3.2025.294
• Pantazis, E., Cao, J., Sordini, F. V., Curletto, G., & Graser, K. (2025). A building configurator for modular residential buildings using a kit-of-parts [Conference paper]. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1554(012035). https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1554/1/012035
• Jenny, D., Graser, K., & Baldini, L. (2023). “rubber band” – a practical support tool for integrated and resource-efficient early design in construction [Conference paper]. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2600(20), 202002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2600/20/202002

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Walzer, A., Petojevic, Z., & Graser, K. (2025, November 27). Aligning project delivery models with circular economy principles : a scoping analysis. Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2025 Zurich - Extended Abstracts. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000785685
• Matescu, M., Urech, A., Schulze, H., Olender, M., Graser, K., & Huber, M. (2024). Braucht New Work neue Kompetenzen? : eine empirische Studie zur Messung von Schlüsselkompetenzen in der Baubranche. 70. GfA-Frühjahrskongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft e.V., Stuttgart, Deutschland, 6.-8. März 2024.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Graser, K., Kahlert, A. and Hall, D. (2021). DFAB HOUSE: implications of a building-scale demonstrator for adoption of digital fabrication in AEC, Construction Management and Economics 39:10, pp. 853-873, DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2021.1988667
• Ng, M. S., Graser, K. and Hall, D. (2021). Digital fabrication, BIM and early contractor involvement in design in construction projects: a comparative case study, in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, DOI: 10.1080/17452007.2021.1956417
• Graser, K., Hunhevicz, J., Jähne, R., Walzer, A., Seiler, F., Wüst, R. and Hall, D. (2021). A Qualitative Technology Evaluation Scoreboard for Digital Fabrication in Construction, 38th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Dubai, UAE
• Graser, K., Adel, A., Baur, M., Sanz Pont, D. and Thoma, A. (2021). Parallel Paths of Inquiry: Detailing for DFAB HOUSE, Technology|Architecture + Design, 5:1, 38-43, DOI: 10.1080/24751448.2021.1863668
• Kahlert, A., Graser, K. and Grote, G. (2020), An Analysis of Three Case Studies on Digitalization in Architecture and Construction, in Symposium: Work Design, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence: Keeping Humans at the Center of Work, Academy of Management Proceedings, Volume 2020, Issue 1.
• Graser, K., Baur, M., Apolinarska, A., Dörfler, K., Hack, N., Jipa, A., Lloret-Fritschi, E., Sandy, T., Sanz Pont, D., Hall, D. and Kohler, M. (2020). DFAB HOUSE – A Comprehensive Demonstrator of Digital Fabrication in Architecture, in: FABRICATE 2020, UCL Press, London.
• Kaseman, K. and Graser, K. (2020). Digital Fabrication in the Construction Sector, in: Anil Sawhney, A., Riley, M. and Irizarry, J. (eds.), Construction 4.0, an Innovation Platform for the Built Environment, Chapter 10. Abingdon, Routledge
• Graser, K., Wang, Y., Hoffman, M., Hall, D. M., Bonamoni, M. and Kohler, M. (2019). Social Network Analysis of DFAB HOUSE: A Demonstrator of Digital Fabrication in Construction, in EPOC Engineering Project Organization Conference 2019, Vail, CO.
• Aghaei Meibodi, M., Jipa, A., Giesecke, R., Shammas, D., Bernhard, M., Leschok, M., Graser, K. and Dillenburger, B. (2018). Smart Slab: Smart Slab: Computational Design and Digital Fabrication of a Lightweight Concrete Slab, in Anzalone, P., Del Signore, M. and Wit, A. J. (eds), ACADIA 2018, Mexico City, Mexico: ACADIA, pp. 320-27.
• García de Soto, B., Agusti-Juan, I., Hunhevicz, J., Joss, S., Graser, K., Habert, G. and Adey, B. (2018). Productivity of digital fabrication in construction: Cost and time analysis of a robotically built wall, Automation in Construction, 92, pp. 297-311. DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2018.04.004
• Lloret-Fritschi, E., Scotto, F., Gramazio, F., Kohler, M., Graser, K., Wangler, T., Reiter, L., Flatt R. J. and Mata-Falcòn. J. (2018). Challenges of Real-Scale Production with Smart Dynamic Casting, in Flatt, R. J. and Wangler, T. (eds), First RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication – Digital Concrete 2018, Cham: Springer.
• Hack, N., Wangler, T., Mata-Falcón, J., Dörfler, K., Kumar, N., Walzer, A., Graser, K., Reiter, L., Richner, H., Buchli, J., Kaufmann, W., Flatt, R. J., Gramazio, F. and Kohler, M. (2017). Mesh Mould: An on site, robotically fabricated, functional formwork, in Second Concrete Innovation Conference (2nd CIC), Tromsø, Norway.
• Winterstetter, T., Baur, M., Graser, K., Sobek, M., Toth. A. (2017). National Museum of Qatar: Stahlbau, Gebäudehülle und 3D-BIM in höchster Komplexität, in Stahlbau 86(4).
• Graser, K. (2023). From Invention to Innovation: Socio-technical Processes in the Adoption of Digital Fabrication to Architecture, Engineering and Construction Praxis, Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich.

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