Mihaela Meslec

Education and Continuing education

Education

MSc Real Estate / Banking and Finance
Lucerne School of Business, HSLU, CH
2018 - 2019

Projects

• 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
• 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., Laube, P., Ochsner, P., Meslec, M., Rahn, H., Junghardt, J., Aurich, I., & Ashworth, S. (2021). Sustain GEOBIM – a new method to simulate sustainable development scenarios for urban areas. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1(3), 967–976. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-021-00092-3
• Catalano, C., Meslec, M., Boileau, J., Guarino, R., Aurich, I., Baumann, N., Chartier, F., Dalix, P., Deramond, S., Laube, P., Lee, A. K. K., Ochsner, P., Pasturel, M., Soret, M., & Moulherat, S. (2021). Smart sustainable cities of the new millennium : towards design for nature. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1(3), 1053–1086. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-021-00100-6

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Haase, M., Konstantinou, T., Magyari, A., Rodriguez Fiscal, P., Soutullo, S., Meslec, M., Kosutova, K., Kouti, A., & Secco, O. (2025). Key success factors of PED labs [Conference paper]. In P. Hájek, J. Tywoniak, A. Lupíšek, K. Sojková, & M. Volf (Eds.), CESB25 – Central Europe towards Sustainable Building 2025 : Proceedings of Technical Papers (pp. 178–189). Czech Technical University in Prague. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-36125
• Meslec, M., Wrase, I., & Haase, M. (2025). Sustainability in valuation : emerging AI-driven real estate approaches [Conference paper]. CIB Conferences, 1(231). https://doi.org/10.7771/3067-4883.1818
• Tagungsband zur Facility Management Konferenz Spotlight FMplus 2025 – Wissenschaft und Praxis im Dialog: Next Generation FM – How FM adds value. (2025). In I. Wrase, M. May, Z. Wang-Speiser, M. Haase, & M. Meslec (eds.), Spotlight FMplus, Zürich, Schweiz, 30.-31. Januar 2025. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2512
• Haase, M., Bernegger, H., & Meslec, M. (2024). Models of circular economy principles [Conference paper]. In V. Ungureanu, L. Bragança, C. Baniotopoulos, & K. M. Abdalla (Eds.), 4th International Conference “Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience” & Midterm Conference of CircularB “Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment” (pp. 461–470). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57800-7_42
• Meslec, M., & Haase, M. (2024). Multi-scalar business models for advancing circular economy in real estate development [Conference paper]. In V. Ungureanu, L. Bragança, C. Baniotopoulos, & K. M. Abdalla (Eds.), 4th International Conference “Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience” & Midterm Conference of CircularB “Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment” (pp. 471–481). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57800-7_43
• Haase, M., Bernegger, H., & Meslec, M. (2024). Stakeholder mapping for value creation of new circular business models [Conference paper]. In V. Ungureanu, L. Bragança, C. Baniotopoulos, & K. M. Abdalla (Eds.), 4th International Conference “Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience” & Midterm Conference of CircularB “Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment” (pp. 325–334). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57800-7_30
• Wrase, I., Bernegger, H., & Meslec, M. (2023). A real estate life cycle meta-instrument assessing and enabling sustainable decision-making and management for real estate owners and stakeholders [Conference paper]. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1176, 12027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1176/1/012027
• Meslec, M. (2022). Reconceptualizing real estate development as a business incubator for sustainable and smart urban products. 28th Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Milan, Italy, 22-25 June 2022. https://doi.org/10.15396/eres2022_204
• Bernegger, H. J., Laube, P., Ochsner, P., Meslec, M., Rahn, H., Junghardt, J., Aurich, I., & Ashworth, S. (2022). A new method combining BIM and GIS data to optimise the sustainability of new construction projects in Switzerland [Conference paper]. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1122, 12052. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1122/1/012052
• Druhmann, C. K., & Meslec, M. (2021, October 28). Living Lab concept for driving change in real estate. FTAL Conference 2021 – Sustainable Smart Cities and Regions, Lugano, Switzerland, 28-29 October 2021.
• Meslec, M., Steger, B., & Druhmann, C. K. (2019). Common data environment for sustainable smart real estate portfolios [Conference paper]. CIB World Building Congress 2019, 1858–1868. https://www.irbnet.de/daten/iconda/CIB_DC32324.pdf
• Meslec, M., Ashworth, S., & Druhmann, C. K. (2018). Integrating life cycle sustainability analysis with BIM [Conference paper]. In M. Tucker (Ed.), Research papers for the 17th EuroFM research symposium, 5-8 June 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria (pp. 96–108). EuroFM.

Other publications

• Gonzalez Martinez, A., Meslec, M., Schmitter, P., Ashworth, S., Kanakaki, M., Eichenberger, J., Bolliger, K., & Pinsker, M. (2026). Smart Building Management 2025 : Zukunft Gebäudemanagement: Chancen, Nutzen und Grenzen von Smart-Building-Lösungen. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-35504
• Catalano, C., & Meslec, M. (2022). Wenn sich die Biodiversität im Hochbau durchsetzt : digitale Instrumente und Methoden für eine nachhaltige Immobilienentwicklung. IUNR Magazin, 2022(1), 26–27. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25072

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Meslec, M., & Druhmann, C. K. (2023). Impact investments in real estate development : no trade-offs with digital entrepreneurship [Conference presentation]. Conference Book of Abstracts ICREDM 2023, 137.
• Catalano, C., & 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 [Conference presentation]. Book of Abstracts INUAS Konferenz 2022, 76–77. https://www.inuas.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/INUAS_BoA_220906_high.pdf
• Junghans, A., Meslec, M., Druhmann, C. K., & Ashworth, S. (2022, May 5). Zusammenspiel von Building Information Modelling und Facility Management : BIM x FM. 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. International Conference on Workplace, Property and Facility Management, Bucharest, Romania, 7-9 November 2018.

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