Dr. Konrad Graser
Work at ZHAW
Position
Lecturer, Digital Building Processes and Management
Experience
- Doctoral Candidate
ETH Zürich, Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management (IBI), Prof. Daniel M. Hall, Chair of Innovative and Industrial Construction
10 / 2018 - 05 / 2023 - Project Collaborator HiLo NEST Unit
ROK Architekten, Zurich
2019 - 2021 - Project Manager, Lead Architect DFAB HOUSE
NCCR Digital Fabrication, ETH Zürich
08 / 2015 - 09 / 2018 - Project Manager Facade Engineering
Werner Sobek Stuttgart GmbH
09 / 2012 - 07 / 2015 - VDC Manager
SHoP Construction LLC, New York, USA
01 / 2011 - 06 / 2012 - Adjunct Professor, Architecture
CCA (California College of the Arts), San Francisco
2011 - 2012 - Project Manager, Senior Design Associate
SHoP Architects, New York, USA
12 / 2004 - 12 / 2010 - Teaching Assistant, Graduate Design Studio
Yale School of Architecture
2009 - 2009
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Dr. sc. ETH Zurich / Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
ETH Zürich, Deptartment of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
2018 - 2023 - Diploma / Architecture
ETH Zürich
2000 - 2004 - Intermediate diploma / Architecture
TU Munich
1997 - 2000
Continuing Education
- Management Summer School
Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Rotterdam / NL
2021 - Certificate Project Management for Research
ETH Zurich
2020 - Certificate course Project Management
Institut Fortbildung Bau, Baden-Württemberg / DE
2014 - LEED Accredited Professional
US Green Building Council / USA
2008
Network
ORCID digital identifier
Social media
Media presence
Projects
- Intelligent Configurator: Rapid Design Generation and Optimization in Modern Methods of Construction / Project leader / laufend
- Swiss Digital Circular Construction Ecosystem / Project leader / laufend
- Tor Alva - White Tower: Project management of 3D printing demonstrator on the building scale / Project leader / abgeschlossen
- Swiss IPD / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
Publications
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Walzer, Alexander; Tan, Tan; Graser, Konrad; Hall, Daniel M.,
2024.
Bug or feature? : institutional misalignments between construction technology and venture capital.
Construction Management and Economics.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2024.2401818
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Kucan, Gordan; Tan, Tan; Grossmann, David; Graser, Konrad; Hall, Daniel M.,
2024.
Sustainable future-proofing healthcare facilities : a modular and adaptable design approach.
Journal of Management in Engineering.
40(6).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1061/JMENEA.MEENG-5942
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Graser, Konrad; Walzer, Alexander N.; Hunhevicz, Jens; Jähne, René; Seiler, Fabian; Wüst, Roman; Hall, Daniel M.,
2023.
Automation in Construction.
154(104964).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2023.104964
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Jenny, David; Graser, Konrad; Baldini, Luca,
2023.
In:
Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
CISBAT International Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, 13-15 September 2023.
IOP Publishing.
pp. 202002.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2600/20/202002
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Matescu, Magdalena; Urech, Andreas; Schulze, Hartmut; Olender, Margarete; Graser, Konrad; Huber, Manfred,
2024.
In:
70. GfA-Frühjahrskongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft e.V., Stuttgart, Deutschland, 6.-8. März 2024.
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- Graser, K., Kahlert, A. and Hall, D. (2021). DFAB HOUSE: implications of a building-scale demonstrator for adoption of digital fabrication in AEC, Construction Management and Economics 39:10, pp. 853-873, DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2021.1988667
- Ng, M. S., Graser, K. and Hall, D. (2021). Digital fabrication, BIM and early contractor involvement in design in construction projects: a comparative case study, in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, DOI: 10.1080/17452007.2021.1956417
- Graser, K., Hunhevicz, J., Jähne, R., Walzer, A., Seiler, F., Wüst, R. and Hall, D. (2021). A Qualitative Technology Evaluation Scoreboard for Digital Fabrication in Construction, 38th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Dubai, UAE
- Graser, K., Adel, A., Baur, M., Sanz Pont, D. and Thoma, A. (2021). Parallel Paths of Inquiry: Detailing for DFAB HOUSE, Technology|Architecture + Design, 5:1, 38-43, DOI: 10.1080/24751448.2021.1863668
- Kahlert, A., Graser, K. and Grote, G. (2020), An Analysis of Three Case Studies on Digitalization in Architecture and Construction, in Symposium: Work Design, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence: Keeping Humans at the Center of Work, Academy of Management Proceedings, Volume 2020, Issue 1.
- Graser, K., Baur, M., Apolinarska, A., Dörfler, K., Hack, N., Jipa, A., Lloret-Fritschi, E., Sandy, T., Sanz Pont, D., Hall, D. and Kohler, M. (2020). DFAB HOUSE – A Comprehensive Demonstrator of Digital Fabrication in Architecture, in: FABRICATE 2020, UCL Press, London.
- Kaseman, K. and Graser, K. (2020). Digital Fabrication in the Construction Sector, in: Anil Sawhney, A., Riley, M. and Irizarry, J. (eds.), Construction 4.0, an Innovation Platform for the Built Environment, Chapter 10. Abingdon, Routledge
- Graser, K., Wang, Y., Hoffman, M., Hall, D. M., Bonamoni, M. and Kohler, M. (2019). Social Network Analysis of DFAB HOUSE: A Demonstrator of Digital Fabrication in Construction, in EPOC Engineering Project Organization Conference 2019, Vail, CO.
- Aghaei Meibodi, M., Jipa, A., Giesecke, R., Shammas, D., Bernhard, M., Leschok, M., Graser, K. and Dillenburger, B. (2018). Smart Slab: Smart Slab: Computational Design and Digital Fabrication of a Lightweight Concrete Slab, in Anzalone, P., Del Signore, M. and Wit, A. J. (eds), ACADIA 2018, Mexico City, Mexico: ACADIA, pp. 320-27.
- García de Soto, B., Agusti-Juan, I., Hunhevicz, J., Joss, S., Graser, K., Habert, G. and Adey, B. (2018). Productivity of digital fabrication in construction: Cost and time analysis of a robotically built wall, Automation in Construction, 92, pp. 297-311. DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2018.04.004
- Lloret-Fritschi, E., Scotto, F., Gramazio, F., Kohler, M., Graser, K., Wangler, T., Reiter, L., Flatt R. J. and Mata-Falcòn. J. (2018). Challenges of Real-Scale Production with Smart Dynamic Casting, in Flatt, R. J. and Wangler, T. (eds), First RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication – Digital Concrete 2018, Cham: Springer.
- Hack, N., Wangler, T., Mata-Falcón, J., Dörfler, K., Kumar, N., Walzer, A., Graser, K., Reiter, L., Richner, H., Buchli, J., Kaufmann, W., Flatt, R. J., Gramazio, F. and Kohler, M. (2017). Mesh Mould: An on site, robotically fabricated, functional formwork, in Second Concrete Innovation Conference (2nd CIC), Tromsø, Norway.
- Winterstetter, T., Baur, M., Graser, K., Sobek, M., Toth. A. (2017). National Museum of Qatar: Stahlbau, Gebäudehülle und 3D-BIM in höchster Komplexität, in Stahlbau 86(4).
- Graser, K. (2023). From Invention to Innovation: Socio-technical Processes in the Adoption of Digital Fabrication to Architecture, Engineering and Construction Praxis, Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich.