Prof. Dr. Isabelle Wrase, FRICS

Work at ZHAW

Position

Co-Director IFM Institute for Facility Management, Lecturer, Head of MSc Real Estate & Facility Management

Focus

Higher Education in Real Estate and Facility Management | Sustainability in Public and Corporate Real Estate Management | Costs and Benefits in Real Estate Life Cycle, Built Environment Transformation, Circular Economy | Governance/Norms and Policies/Processes in Sustainability | Digitalisation | Life Sciences

Teaching

• Lecturer Module «Real Estate Markets»
• Module Responsible and Lecturer Module «Public and Corporate Real Estate»
• Module Responsible and Lecturer Module «Processes, Engineering and Procurement»
• Lecturer Module «Strategies in Sustainability»
• Dep. Module Responsible and Lecturer Module «Leadership, Ethics, Change»
• Lecturer CAS «Strategic Real Estate and Facility Management»

Experience

20 years of professional experience in life cycle management (acquisition/construction; management/refurbishment; disinvestment) of real estate, facilities and services, both in consulting and in the corporate sector, in various industries in Switzerland and worldwide. Development and management of a Master's programme together with lecturers, teaching staff, practice partners, students and other stakeholders.
WP, EY, Lonza, ZHAW
09 / 2000 - today

Education and Continuing education

Education

Ph.D. / Economics / Social Science
University of Zurich
09 / 2005 - 01 / 2009

Continuing Education

Various further training courses in leadership, strategy, management, negotiations, university didactics, etc.
ZHAW, PHZH, RICS, IMD
08 / 2023

Network

Membership of networks

• ERES: European Real Estate Society
• OEC UZH Alumni: Association for all graduates of the Faculty of Business and Economics University of Zurich
• CoreNetGlobal: The Global Association for Corporate Real Estate
• ORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor ID
• RealFM: Professional Association of Real Estate and Facility Managers
• RICS: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor - Fellow
• ISO: International Organization for Standardization

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6938-1361

Social media

Linkedin

Projects

• An integrated, data-driven Smart Real Estate life cycle benchmark as a foundation for innovative delivery models in the real estate sector / Deputy project leader / ongoing

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Wrase, I. (2023). An analysis of sustainability in real estate in job advertisements and personal profiles in Switzerland. Sustainability, 15(12), 9789. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129789
• Wrase, I., Haase, M., & Wang-Speiser, Z. (2023). Towards a circular built environment : focus on the new M.Sc. program in real estate and facility management. Frontiers in Sustainability, 4(1163394). https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2023.1163394
• Richter, T. J., Soliva, E., Haase, M., & Wrase, I. (2021). Corporate real estate and green building : prevalence, transparency and drivers. Journal of Corporate Real Estate, 24(4), 241–255. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCRE-05-2021-0016

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Wrase, I., Kauer, M., & Arnold, I. (2026). Facility and real estate management. In International Encyclopedia of Business Management (Vol. 4, pp. 429–431). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-443-13701-3.00343-1
• Haase, M., Wrase, I., & Wang-Speiser, Z. (2023). Focus on skills for a circular built environment in a new curriculum development. In L. Bragança, M. Cvetkovska, A. Rand, & V. Ungureanu (Eds.), Creating a Roadmap Towards Circularity in the Built Environment (pp. 149–159). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45980-1_13

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• 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
• 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
• Wrase, I., Haase, M., & Wang-Speiser, Z. (2023, September 1). Sustainability in higher education. Conference Teaching and Learning for Change: Sustainability in Higher Education, Bern, Switzerland, 1 September 2023.
• Merkle, T., & Wrase, I. (2023, July 19). Digitizing healthcare patient nutrition intake in Swiss hospitals. Annual International CHRIE Summer Conference, Phoenix, USA, 19-21 July 2023.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Wrase, I. (2023, May 10). Expert critic to stimulating debate on standards : how can we learn from one another? CIB W070 Conference on Facility Management and Maintenance, Trondheim, Norway, 8-11 May 2023.
• Wrase, I. (2022). Corporate real estate and green buildings : higher education requirements. 28th Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Milan, Italy, 22-25 June 2022. https://doi.org/10.15396/eres2022_164
• Wrase, I., & Junghans, A. (2021). Higher education in Real Estate and Facility Management in Switzerland. ERES 2021 Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.15396/eres2021_221

Other publications

Responsible for the regular webinars "IFMA meets..." with topics around the life cycle of real estate and in facility management

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