Hans-Rudolf Schalcher is Chair of Planning and Management in Construction (Institute for Construction Engineering and Management) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland. He is a member of the Management Board and Head of the Technical Competence Center (TCC) of the Holcim Foundation.

He currently leads an interdisciplinary research project on sustainable development in urban environments.

Hans-Rudolf Schalcher worked as a civil engineer from 1969 after studying at the ETH. He completed his PhD in 1977 with a thesis on communication in building. In 1990 he was appointed by the ETH as Professor for Planning and Management in Construction.

In 1993 he became president of the Center for Integrated Planning in Construction (ZIPBau) at the ETH, and was Head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering from 1999 until 2005.