Alvéole leverages bees on your commercial building to help you boost tenant engagement and achieve your sustainability goals.
Bring nature-based solutions to your building
Amsterdam, with its iconic canals and green spaces like Vondelpark and Amsterdamse Bos, blends urban life with nature. The city’s sustainability initiatives, including pollinator-friendly programs, support local biodiversity. Native plants such as wild thyme, meadow buttercups, and clover thrive, creating vibrant habitats for pollinators and enriching Amsterdam’s picturesque landscape.
Use your property to make a lasting impact on your community and city.
Nature-focused amenities
Foster a sense of attachment to the building with bee habitats and branded jars of honey from your own property.
Environmental workshops
From beekeeping 101 to bottling your own honey, you’ll have everything you need to make your building events unforgettable.
Sustainability initiatives
Earn green building certifications, foster environmental awareness, and support nature in the city.
Nature and biodiversity monitoring
Enhance your ESG report and make informed decisions to support biodiversity.
Buildings
Partners
Bee Habitats
Embassy of Canada to the Netherlands
The whole team at the Embassy of Canada to the Netherlands has enthusiatically embraced their bees. Employees eagerly crowd around to watch their beekeeper at work and workshops are well attended. Employee engagement has soared, the community has gotten involved through a honey label design contest, and the initiative even inspired the Embassy team to plant their own pollinator garden.
The Netherlands' biodiversity policy aims to preserve and strengthen the Netherlands' natural environment, with a strong focus on biodiversity, habitat, and species conservation.
Why choose Alvéole?
Tenant subscriptions & event booking
Tenants subscribe to updates and book workshops directly. Your subscriber list stays current automatically.
Engagement & participation tracking
See attendance rates, repeat participation, and engagement trends by property, ready before renewal conversations.
Content library & templates
Pre-built email templates, event content, and photos, ready to use without building anything from scratch.
Biodiversity & hive data
Nature monitoring data structured for sustainability reports, GRESB submissions, and investor disclosures.
Frequently asked questions
Urban beekeeping in Amsterdam is regulated by local ordinances, which require beekeepers to register their hives with the Dutch Beekeepers Association (Nederlandse Bijenhouders Vereniging) and follow guidelines regarding hive placement and maintenance to ensure public safety and neighborhood harmony. Alvéole’s professional beekeepers ensure compliance with all local and national regulations in Amsterdam.
Urban beekeeping is safe, with many successful bee programs operating throughout Amsterdam. At Alvéole, we work with a special breed of Italian honey bees selected for their docility. Honey bees are gentle creatures who (almost) never sting without reason. Unless they feel threatened, bees have no motivation to sting – in fact, once they sting, they lose their stinger along with a part of their abdomen, and die.Wild bees are as peaceful as honey bees. They technically can sting, but they don’t. Docile and nonterritorial, they’re extremely gentle. Unless they’re being touched, they simply go about their business.
Alvéole's urban beekeeping program aligns with Amsterdam's sustainability efforts, including initiatives to promote green spaces, biodiversity, and environmental education. Alvéole's approach to beekeeping contributes to Amsterdam's broader goals of creating a more sustainable urban environment.