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

• Digital end-to-end configurator for residential real estate development / Project leader / ongoing
• National Teaching and Learning Platform for Ecological Sustainability in Architecture / Project leader / ongoing
• Swiss Digital Circular Construction Ecosystem / Project leader / ongoing
• InterPreT – Interdisciplinary Preservation Tool / Project leader / completed
• 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. et al. (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). doi: 10.1061/jcemd4.coeng-16680.
• Walzer, A. et al. (2024) 'Bug or feature? : institutional misalignments between construction technology and venture capital', Construction Management and Economics, 43(2), pp. 130–152. doi: 10.1080/01446193.2024.2401818.
• Kucan, G. et al. (2024) 'Sustainable future-proofing healthcare facilities : a modular and adaptable design approach', Journal of Management in Engineering, 40(6). doi: 10.1061/JMENEA.MEENG-5942.
• Graser, K. et al. (2023) 'Qualitative technology evaluation of digital fabrication with concrete : conceptual framework and scoreboard', Automation in Construction, 154(104964). doi: 10.1016/j.autcon.2023.104964.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Tan, T. et al. (2025) 'Project delivery methods to digital fabrication in architecture : a comparative case study from a modularity perspective', in Lu, W. and Anumba, C. J. (eds) Routledge Handbook of Smart Built Environment. London: Routledge, pp. 46–63. doi: 10.1201/9781003383840-5.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Petojevic, Z. et al. (2025) 'Introducing the IPD Cookbook for effective project delivery : a quick reference guide to principles, values, and instruments', in Obradović, V. and Ivanišević, N. (eds) Proceedings of the 29th International Congress on Project Management "Collective Intelligence of Professional Project Management". IPMA Serbia, pp. 125–135. doi: 10.56889/gmjx3259.
• Cao, J. et al. (2025) 'A scalable strategy for configurator adoption in residential projects', in Petrova, E. et al. (eds) Proceedings of the 2025 European Conference on Computing in Construction & 42nd International CIB W78 Conference on Information Technology for Construction. European Council on Computing in Construction, pp. 1363–1368. doi: 10.35490/EC3.2025.294.
• Pantazis, E. et al. (2025) 'A building configurator for modular residential buildings using a kit-of-parts', in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. IOP Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/1554/1/012035.
• Jenny, D., Graser, K. and Baldini, L. (2023) '"rubber band" – a practical support tool for integrated and resource-efficient early design in construction', in Journal of Physics: Conference Series. IOP Publishing, p. 202002. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2600/20/202002.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Walzer, A., Petojevic, Z. and Graser, K. (2025) 'Aligning project delivery models with circular economy principles : a scoping analysis', in Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2025 Zurich - Extended Abstracts. Zurich: ETH Zurich. doi: 10.3929/ethz-c-000785685.
• Matescu, M. et al. (2024) 'Braucht New Work neue Kompetenzen? : eine empirische Studie zur Messung von Schlüsselkompetenzen in der Baubranche', in 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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