Prof. Dr. Isabelle Wrase, FRICS
Prof. Dr. Isabelle Wrase, FRICS
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
IFM 2
Reidbach
8820 Wädenswil
Work at ZHAW
Position
Focus
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
Social media
Projects
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), p. 9789. doi: 10.3390/su15129789.
- Wrase, I., Haase, M. and 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). doi: 10.3389/frsus.2023.1163394.
- Richter, T. J. et al. (2021) 'Corporate real estate and green building : prevalence, transparency and drivers', Journal of Corporate Real Estate, 24(4), pp. 241–255. doi: 10.1108/JCRE-05-2021-0016.
Book chapters, peer-reviewed
- Wrase, I., Kauer, M. and Arnold, I. (2026) 'Facility and real estate management', in International Encyclopedia of Business Management. Elsevier, pp. 429–431. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-443-13701-3.00343-1.
- Haase, M., Wrase, I. and Wang-Speiser, Z. (2023) 'Focus on skills for a circular built environment in a new curriculum development', in Bragança, L. et al. (eds) Creating a Roadmap Towards Circularity in the Built Environment. Cham: Springer, pp. 149–159. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-45980-1_13.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- 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.
- 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.
- Wrase, I., Haase, M. and Wang-Speiser, Z. (2023) 'Sustainability in higher education', in Conference Teaching and Learning for Change: Sustainability in Higher Education, Bern, Switzerland, 1 September 2023.
- Merkle, T. and Wrase, I. (2023) 'Digitizing healthcare patient nutrition intake in Swiss hospitals', in Annual International CHRIE Summer Conference, Phoenix, USA, 19-21 July 2023.
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
- Wrase, I. (2023) 'Expert critic to stimulating debate on standards : how can we learn from one another?', in 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', in 28th Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), Milan, Italy, 22-25 June 2022. doi: 10.15396/eres2022_164.
- Wrase, I. and Junghans, A. (2021) 'Higher education in Real Estate and Facility Management in Switzerland', in ERES 2021 Conference Proceedings. Kaiserslautern: European Real Estate Society. doi: 10.15396/eres2021_221.