Work Topic

Entrepreneurship for Digital Fabrication and Robotics in Construction

Role in the NCCR Digital Fabrication

PhD Researcher

Affiliation

Innovative and Industrial Construction, Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH Zurich

Project

Social, Economic and Organisational Impacts of Adopting DFAB

Focus Topics

• Project 4B: New Praxis

NCCR publications

• A Stochastic Decision-Support Framework for Exploring Strategic Pathways in 3D Concrete Printing (2024)

  • Date: 04.09.2024
  • Authors: Alex Walzer, Mariia Kozlova, Ashish Mohite, Julian Scott Yeomans, Prof. Dr. Daniel Hall
  • Notes: Preprint

• Printing homes: Unit cost estimation for additive manufacturing in construction (2024)

  • Date: 01.01.2024
  • Authors: Alex Walzer, Mariia Kozlova, Julian Scott Yeomans

• Bug or feature? Institutional misalignments between construction technology and venture capital (2024)

  • Date: 01.01.2024
  • Authors: Alex Walzer, Dr. Tan Tan, Dr. Konrad Graser, Prof. Dr. Daniel Hall

• Qualitative technology evaluation of digital fabrication with concrete: Conceptual framework and scoreboard (2023)

  • Date: 01.10.2023
  • Authors: Dr. Konrad Graser, Alex Walzer, Jens Juri Hunhevicz, Dr. René Jähne, Fabian Seiler, Roman Wüst, Prof. Dr. Daniel Hall

• Exploring the Dynamics of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Investing in Construction Robotics (2023)

  • Date: 14.09.2023
  • Authors: Alex Walzer, Dr. Tan Tan, Dr. Konrad Graser, Prof. Dr. Daniel Hall
  • Event: Future of Construction 2023 Symposium
  • Notes: Poster presented on September 14, 2023

• Understanding Stakeholders’ Intention to Use Construction Robots: A Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (2023)

  • Date: 13.09.2023
  • Authors: Sihui Wu, Alex Walzer, Aniko Kahlert, Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger, Prof. Dr. Daniel Hall
  • Event: The Future of Construction 2023: Symposium on Human-Machine Teams for Design and Sustainable Construction
  • Notes: Poster presented on September 13, 2023.

• Beyond googly eyes: stakeholder perceptions of robots in construction (2022)

  • Date: 01.12.2022
  • Authors: Alex Walzer, Aniko Kahlert, Micha Baumann, Melanie Uhlmann, Dr. Lauren Vasey, Prof. Dr. Daniel Hall

• A Qualitative Technology Evaluation Scoreboard for Digital Fabrication in Construction (2021)

  • Date: 01.11.2021
  • Authors: Dr. Konrad Graser, Jens Juri Hunhevicz, Dr. René Jähne, Alex Walzer, Fabian Seiler, Roman Wüst, Prof. Dr. Daniel Hall
  • Event: 38th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2021)
  • Notes: Conference lecture held on November 4, 2021.

• Structural stay-in-place formwork for robotic in situ fabrication of non-standard concrete structures: A real scale architectural demonstrator (2020)

  • Date: 01.07.2020
  • Authors: Prof. Dr. Norman Hack, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler, Alex Walzer, Dr. Timothy Wangler, Dr. Jaime Mata Falcón, Dr. Nitish Kumar, Prof. Dr. Jonas Buchli, Prof. Dr. Walter Kaufmann, Prof. Dr. Robert Flatt, Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Prof. Matthias Kohler

• Mobile robotic fabrication beyond factory conditions: case study Mesh Mould wall of the DFAB HOUSE (2019)

  • Date: 01.12.2019
  • Authors: Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler, Prof. Dr. Norman Hack, Dr. Timothy Sandy, Dr. Markus Giftthaler, Manuel Lussi, Alex Walzer, Prof. Dr. Jonas Buchli, Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Prof. Matthias Kohler
  • Notes: It was possible to publish this article open access thanks to a Swiss National Licence with the publisher.

• Robotic AeroCrete – A novel robotic spraying and surface treatment technology for the production of slender reinforced concrete elements (2019)

  • Date: 01.01.2019
  • Authors: Nizar Taha, Alex Walzer, Jetana Ruangjun, Theophil Bürgin, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler, Prof. Dr. Ena Lloret-Fritschi, Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Prof. Matthias Kohler
  • Event: 37th eCAADe + SIGraDi Conference: Architecture in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution (2019)

• Challenges in full scale filling of a digitally fabricated leaky formwork (2018)

  • Date: 10.09.2018
  • Authors: Hannes Heller, Dr. Timothy Wangler, Prof. Dr. Norman Hack, Alex Walzer, Prof. Dr. Robert Flatt
  • Event: 1st RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Concrete 2018)
  • Notes: Poster presented on 10 September 2018.

• Design, development and experimental assessment of a robotic end-effector for non-standard concrete applications (2017)

  • Date: 01.05.2017
  • Authors: Dr. Nitish Kumar, Prof. Dr. Norman Hack, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler, Alex Walzer, Gonzalo Javier Rey, Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Prof. Matthias Kohler, Prof. Dr. Jonas Buchli
  • Event: International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017)

• Mesh Mould: An On Site, Robotically Fabricated, Functional Formwork (2017)

  • Date: 01.03.2017
  • Authors: Prof. Dr. Norman Hack, Dr. Timothy Wangler, Dr. Jaime Mata Falcón, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler, Dr. Nitish Kumar, Alex Walzer, Dr. Konrad Graser, Dr. Lex Reiter, Heinz Richner, Prof. Dr. Jonas Buchli, Prof. Dr. Walter Kaufmann, Prof. Dr. Robert Flatt, Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Prof. Matthias Kohler
  • Event: Second Concrete Innovation Conference (2nd CIC)
  • Notes: Presented on March 7, 2017. Conference paper only available online.

Email

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External URL(s)

• Personal page at the ETH Institute of Construction & Infrastructure Management
• walzer.tech Consulting
• LinkedIn