Marcel Janser
Marcel Janser
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Real Estate Management Competency Group
Reidbach
8820 Wädenswil
Work at ZHAW
Position
Focus
- Strong Sustainability in the Real Estate Industry
- History of the sustainability discourse
- Circular Economy
- Sustainability Management
- Energy Performance Gaps
Teaching
- BSc in FM: Fundamentals in FM
- BSc in FM: Empirical Research Methods (module responsibility)
- BSc in FM: Energy Management (individual interdisciplinary input)
- MSc in REFM: Circular Economy Management
- CAS Energy Management (individual interdisciplinary inputs)
Experience
- Senior Research Associate in Sustainability
Institute of Facility Management, ZHAW
05 / 2011 - today - Internship
Institute for Work Research and Organizational Consultancy (iafob)
11 / 2010 - 04 / 2011 - Internship Personnel- and Management Development
ALSTOM (Switzerland) AG
04 / 2007 - 09 / 2007
Education and Continuing education
Education
Msc / Social- and Business Psychology
University of Zurich
10 / 2003 - 04 / 2010
Continuing Education
- CAS Energy Management
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
01 / 2020 - CAS Higher Education Didactics
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
10 / 2017
Network
Social media
Projects
- An integrated, data-driven Smart Real Estate life cycle benchmark as a foundation for innovative delivery models in the real estate sector / Team member / ongoing
- Care for Rare Navigator: Digital AI-supported counseling service for families with rare diseases / Team member / ongoing
- Space sufficiency in office buildings / Deputy project leader / ongoing
- Massive Decarbonisation of the Swiss Building Stock / Team member / completed
- Healing architecture in mental health-care facilities / Team member / completed
- Campus Challenge Sustainability Exchange / Team member / completed
- Bringing Real Estate Portfolios on a Climate-Friendly Track / Project leader / completed
- Standard Modules for FM Contracts / Deputy project leader / completed
- Innovative business models for integrated real estate services / Deputy project leader / completed
- Quality of Sustainable Office Buildings / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Monn, C., Leiblein, T., Janser, M., Feige, A., Wallbaum, H., Windlinger Inversini, L., & Hofmann, T. (2015). Umgebungsbedingungen in Büros in Abhängigkeit von der Lüftung : Auswertungen aus dem Projekt „Qualität von Nachhaltigen Bürogebäuden“ (QNB-Projekt). Gefahrstoffe - Reinhaltung der Luft, 2015(5), 191–196.
- Feige, A., Wallbaum, H., Janser, M., & Windlinger Inversini, L. (2013). Impact of sustainable office buildings on occupant’s comfort and productivity. Journal of Corporate Real Estate, 15(1), 7–34. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCRE-01-2013-0004
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Janser, M., Hubbuch, M., & Windlinger Inversini, L. (2020). Call for a definition and paradigm shift in energy performance gap research [Conference paper]. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 588(5), 52052. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/588/5/052052
- Behave 2018 : Book of Abstracts. (2018). In M. Hackenfort, V. Carabias-Hütter, C. Hartmann, M. Janser, N. Schwarz, & P. Stücheli-Herlach (Eds.), 5th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency (BEHAVE 2018), Zurich, 5-7 September 2018. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1370
- Janser, M. (2018). Explaining the energy performance gap in professionally managed buildings. Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency.
- Leiblein, T., Feige, A., Janser, M., Monn, C., Wallbaum, H., Windlinger Inversini, L., & Hofmann, T. (2014). Field study of natural, mechanical and hybrid ventilation systems of 27 office buildings in the temperate zone country Switzerland. Indoor Air Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1136
Other publications
- Windlinger Inversini, L., Janser, M., Hollenstein, L., & Derman, M. (2025). Zwischenbericht Projekt FBB : Flächensuffizienz bei Bürogebäuden. Bundesamt für Energie BFE. https://www.aramis.admin.ch/Dokument.aspx?DocumentID=73830
- Berger, V., Frei, S., Koch, D., Janser, M., & Stucki, M. (2022). Klimaduell – das Klima gewinnt. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25280
- Janser, M. (2020). Wer das Klima wirklich schützen will, muss sich committen und Klimaschutz als sozio-technische Herausforderung begreifen. FMforFuture!, 2020, 33–35. https://realestatemove.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/FM-for-Future.pdf
- Windlinger Inversini, L., & Janser, M. (2017). Büros als strategische Ressource. Immobilia, 2017(4), 56–57.
- Jin, Q., Wallbaum, H., Leiblein, T., Hofmann, T., Janser, M., & Windlinger Inversini, L. (2017). Assessments of indoor environmental quality on occupant satisfaction and physical parameters in office buildings [Conference paper]. 14th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (INDOOR AIR 2016), 1, 868–875.
- Janser, M., Monn, C., Leiblein, T., Hofmann, T., Schäfer-Cui, Y. Y., Wallbaum, H., & Windlinger Inversini, L. (2017). Komfort, Gesundheit und Arbeitsleistung in Bürogebäuden. Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Sicherheit und Gesundheit, 2017(5), 18–20.
- Windlinger Inversini, L., Konkol, J., Janser, M., Schanné, F., Lange, S., & Schäfer-Cui, Y. Y. (2016). Die 20 hartnäckigsten Missverständnisse und Irrtümer zu Büroarbeitswelten [Conference paper]. In L. Windlinger Inversini, S. Hofer, B. Keller Foletti, R. Schlegel, & I. Arnold Moos (eds.), Tagungsband zum Symposium FM – here we go! , Standortbestimmung einer Milliardenbranche (pp. 258–275). ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-5033
- Jin, Q., Windlinger Inversini, L., Hofmann, T., Janser, M., Wallbaum, H., & Leiblein, T. (2016). Assessments of indoor environmental quality on occupant satisfaction and physical parameters in office buildings [Conference paper]. 14th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (INDOOR AIR 2016), 868–876.
- Leiblein, T., Feige, A., Janser, M., Monn, C., Wallbaum, H., Windlinger Inversini, L., & Hofmann, T. (2015). Field study of natural, mechanical and hybrid ventilation systems of 27 office buildings in the temperate zone country Switzerland [Conference paper]. 13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate 2014, 1, 324–331.
- Janser, M., Windlinger Inversini, L., Leiblein, T., Hofmann, T., Wallbaum, H., Feige, A., Cui, Y. Y., & Lange, S. (2015). Leitfaden für Nachhaltige Bürogebäude : Handlungsempfehlungen für Eigentümer, Bauherren, Planer, Betreiber und Nutzer von Bürogebäuden in der Schweiz. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-5553
- Windlinger Inversini, L., Hofmann, T., & Janser, M. (2012). Die Qualität nachhaltiger Bürogebäude für die Nutzer : Nachhaltigkeit gewinnt im Immobilienbereich. SVG Journal, 2012(2), 8–10. http://www.svg-umwelt.ch/svg-journal/svg-journal-2012?download=212:gut-22012-06-10
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Janser, M., & Windlinger Inversini, L. (2018). Workplace related predictors of exhaustion symptoms : results from a multi-level analysis of 26 office buildings. Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) Conference, Tampere, Finland, 20-22 September 2018.
- Windlinger Inversini, L., Janser, M., Feige, A., & Wallbaum, H. (2012). The role of office users in the sustainability of office buildings : an empirical investigation and implications for FM. IEECB 2012 - 7th International Conference on Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings, Frankfurt, Germany, 2012.