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

Publications

• Wrase, Isabelle,

  2023.

  An analysis of sustainability in real estate in job advertisements and personal profiles in Switzerland.

  Sustainability.

  15(12), pp. 9789.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129789

• Wrase, Isabelle; Haase, Matthias; Wang-Speiser, Zifei,

  2023.

  Towards a circular built environment : focus on the new M.Sc. program in real estate and facility management.

  Frontiers in Sustainability.

  4(1163394).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2023.1163394

• Richter, Thomas Julian; Soliva, Eveline; Haase, Matthias; Wrase, Isabelle,

  2021.

  Corporate real estate and green building : prevalence, transparency and drivers.

  Journal of Corporate Real Estate.

  24(4), pp. 241-255.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JCRE-05-2021-0016

• Haase, Matthias; Wrase, Isabelle; Wang-Speiser, Zifei,

  2023.

  Focus on skills for a circular built environment in a new curriculum development.

  In:

  Bragança, Luis; Cvetkovska, Meri; Rand, Askar; Ungureanu, Viorel, eds.,

  Creating a Roadmap Towards Circularity in the Built Environment.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 149-159.

  Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering (SPRTRCIENG).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45980-1_13

• Wrase, Isabelle; May, Michael; Wang-Speiser, Zifei; Haase, Matthias; Meslec, Mihaela, 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.

  .

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-2512

• Wrase, Isabelle; Haase, Matthias; Wang-Speiser, Zifei; et al.,

  2023.

  Sustainability in higher education[poster].

  In:

  Conference Teaching and Learning for Change: Sustainability in Higher Education, Bern, Switzerland, 1 September 2023.

• Merkle, Thorsten; Wrase, Isabelle,

  2023.

  Digitizing healthcare patient nutrition intake in Swiss hospitals[paper].

  In:

  Annual International CHRIE Summer Conference, Phoenix, USA, 19-21 July 2023.

• Wrase, Isabelle; Bernegger, Heinz; Meslec, Mihaela,

  2023.

  A real estate life cycle meta-instrument assessing and enabling sustainable decision-making and management for real estate owners and stakeholders[paper].

  In:

  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science.

  CIB W070 Conference on Facility Management and Maintenance 2023, Trondheim, Norway, 8-11 May 2023.

  IOP Publishing.

  pp. 012027.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1176/1/012027

• Wrase, Isabelle,

  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, Isabelle,

  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.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.15396/eres2022_164

• Wrase, Isabelle; Junghans, Antje,

  2021.

  Higher education in Real Estate and Facility Management in Switzerland.

  In:

  ERES 2021 Conference Proceedings.

  27th Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES), online, 2-5 June 2021.

  Kaiserslautern:

  European Real Estate Society.

  Available from: 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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