Mihaela Meslec, MSc Arch, Dipl.-Ing.
Mihaela Meslec, MSc Arch, Dipl.-Ing.
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Institute of Facility Management
Work at ZHAW
Position
Research and Teaching
Focus
- Sustainable Investments in Real Estate Development
- Smart Cities and Ecosystems
- AI in Real Estate Development
- PropTech and Entrepreneurship in Real Estate Development
- Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in Real Estate Development enabled by Digitalisation
- Circular Economy Business Models enabled by Digitalisation
Teaching
- MSc Modul PropTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship (new module conception and development in 2022, lead, coordination, and teaching.)
- MSc Modul Circular Economy (1 Teaching Block CE Business Models enabled by Digitalisation))
- MSc Modul Built Environment Transformation (2 Blocks: The Value of Nature Based Solution in Smart Urban Development)
- BSc Thesis Supervision
Education and Continuing education
Education
- MSc in Real Estate / Banking and Finance
Lucerne School of Business, HSLU, CH
2018 - 2019 - MSc in Urban Development (Dipl. -Ing)
Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands
2010 - 2012 - MSc Dipl. Architecture
Technical University Cluj-Napoca, RO
2006 - 2010
Continuing Education
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Higher Education Teaching
University of Education Zurich (PH Zürich)
2021
Network
Membership of networks
- Urban Land Institut (ULI), CH Member
- buildingSMART International, buildingSMART CH
- Member of Alumni Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands
- European Real Estate Society (ERES) - PhD Network: Chair/President (2023-2024), Board Member (2022-2023)
- Royal Institute of Dutch Order of Architects, Accepted in 2012
ORCID digital identifier
Projects
- Simulation-Based Assessment of Development Potential and Feasibility for Smart Buildings / Team member / ongoing
- Circular Approaches in the Built Environment / Team member / ongoing
- Urban Positive Clean neigHborhood energy trAnsition: driving innovative solutions for Renovation, diGitalisation and energy Efficiency / Team member / ongoing
- Interoperable solutions to streamline PED evolution and cross-sectoral integration / Team member / ongoing
- Human-AI Interaction in Autonomous Buildings / Team member / completed
- AI-supported flexible Simulations using Surrogate Models in Real Estate / Co-project leader / completed
- A National Survey and the SBM Index (RE&FM): Smart Building Management Maturity in Switzerland / Team member / completed
- Development of the #Bestandsplatine#: A Common Data Environment as Design and Decision Supporting Tool / Project leader / completed
- Massive Decarbonisation of the Swiss Building Stock / Team member / completed
- Sustainable Investments in Real Estate Development driven by Digital Technologies: New Value Creation Systems / Project leader / completed
- User Assistance Systems for Smart Commercial Buildings / Team member / completed
- DeMo. Urban Ecosystems Design and Modelling: A spatial based approach to integrate habitats in constructed ecosystems / Co-project leader / completed
- System for integrated, data-driven asset controlling of real estate / Team member / completed
- Virtual Design and Construction – Digital Building – BIM Building Models and Product Data / Team member / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Bernegger, H. et al. (2021) 'Sustain GEOBIM – a new method to simulate sustainable development scenarios for urban areas', Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1(3), pp. 967–976. doi: 10.1007/s43615-021-00092-3.
- Catalano, C. et al. (2021) 'Smart sustainable cities of the new millennium : towards design for nature', Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1(3), pp. 1053–1086. doi: 10.1007/s43615-021-00100-6.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Witzig, A., Meslec, M. and Haase, M. (eds) (2026) Proceedings of BauSIM2026 : building simulation conference, 11. Gebäudesimulations-Konferenz (BauSIM), Zürich, Schweiz, 9.-11. September 2026. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-2860.2.
- Gonzalez Martinez, A. et al. (2026) 'Smart building management maturity in Switzerland : results from a national survey and the SBM Index (RE&FM)', in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual European Real Estate Society Conference. doi: 10.15396/eres2026_069.
- Haase, M. et al. (2026) 'Key performance indicators for positive energy district assessment', in Zilio, C. et al. (eds). Cham: Springer, pp. 548–557. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-10546-2_51.
- Haase, M. et al. (2025) 'Key success factors of PED labs', in Hájek, P. et al. (eds) CESB25 – Central Europe towards Sustainable Building 2025 : Proceedings of Technical Papers. Czech Technical University in Prague, pp. 178–189. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36125.
- Meslec, M., Wrase, I. and Haase, M. (2025) 'Sustainability in valuation : emerging AI-driven real estate approaches', in CIB Conferences. Purdue University. doi: 10.7771/3067-4883.1818.
- Wrase, I. et al. (eds) (2025) Tagungsband zur Facility Management Konferenz Spotlight FMplus 2025 – Wissenschaft und Praxis im Dialog: Next Generation FM – How FM adds value, Spotlight FMplus, Zürich, Schweiz, 30.-31. Januar 2025. Wädenswil: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-2512.
- Meslec, M. and Haase, M. (2024) 'Multi-scalar business models for advancing circular economy in real estate development', in Ungureanu, V. et al. (eds) 4th International Conference 'Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience' & Midterm Conference of CircularB "Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment". Cham: Springer, pp. 471–481. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-57800-7_43.
- Haase, M., Bernegger, H. and Meslec, M. (2024) 'Models of circular economy principles', in Ungureanu, V. et al. (eds) 4th International Conference 'Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience' & Midterm Conference of CircularB "Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment". Cham: Springer, pp. 461–470. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-57800-7_42.
- Haase, M., Bernegger, H. and Meslec, M. (2024) 'Stakeholder mapping for value creation of new circular business models', in Ungureanu, V. et al. (eds) 4th International Conference 'Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience' & Midterm Conference of CircularB "Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment". Cham: Springer, pp. 325–334. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-57800-7_30.
- Wrase, I., Bernegger, H. and Meslec, M. (2023) 'A real estate life cycle meta-instrument assessing and enabling sustainable decision-making and management for real estate owners and stakeholders', in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. IOP Publishing, p. 012027. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/1176/1/012027.
- Meslec, M. (2022) 'Reconceptualizing real estate development as a business incubator for sustainable and smart urban products', in 28th Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Milan, Italy, 22-25 June 2022. European Real Estate Society. doi: 10.15396/eres2022_204.
- Bernegger, H. J. et al. (2022) 'A new method combining BIM and GIS data to optimise the sustainability of new construction projects in Switzerland', in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. IOP Publishing, p. 012052. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/1122/1/012052.
- Druhmann, C. K. and Meslec, M. (2021) 'Living Lab concept for driving change in real estate', in FTAL Conference 2021 – Sustainable smart cities and regions, Lugano, Switzerland, 28-29 October 2021.
- Meslec, M., Steger, B. and Druhmann, C. K. (2019) 'Common data environment for sustainable smart real estate portfolios', in CIB World Building Congress 2019. International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, pp. 1858–1868. Available at: https://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB_DC32324.pdf.
- Meslec, M., Ashworth, S. and Druhmann, C. K. (2018) 'Integrating life cycle sustainability analysis with BIM', in Tucker, M. (ed.) Research papers for the 17th EuroFM research symposium, 5-8 June 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Schiphol-Rijk: EuroFM, pp. 96–108.
Other publications
- Gonzalez Martinez, A. et al. (2026) Smart Building Management 2025 : Zukunft Gebäudemanagement: Chancen, Nutzen und Grenzen von Smart-Building-Lösungen. Wädenswil: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-35504.
- Catalano, C. and Meslec, M. (2022) 'Wenn sich die Biodiversität im Hochbau durchsetzt : digitale Instrumente und Methoden für eine nachhaltige Immobilienentwicklung', IUNR Magazin, 2022(1), pp. 26–27. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-25072.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Meslec, M. and Druhmann, C. K. (2023) 'Impact investments in real estate development : no trade-offs with digital entrepreneurship', in Conference Book of Abstracts ICREDM 2023, p. 137.
- Catalano, C. and Meslec, M. (2022) 'Digital urban development targeting net-gain biodiversity goals : the DeMo Project, a holistic spatial-based framework to integrate habitats in constructed ecosystems', in Book of Abstracts INUAS Konferenz 2022, pp. 76–77. Available at: https://www.inuas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/INUAS_BoA_220906_high.pdf.
- Junghans, A. et al. (2022) 'Zusammenspiel von Building Information Modelling und Facility Management : BIM x FM', in Swissbau Compact, Basel, Schweiz, 3.-6. Mai 2022.
- Meslec, M. (2018) 'BIM: bridging the gap between design and operational phase for more sustainable real estate', in International Conference on Workplace, Property and Facility Management, Bucharest, Romania, 7-9 November 2018.