Give your Austin buildings an engagement program tenants talk about.
Why urban beekeeping works for Austin buildings
Austin's Climate Equity Plan sets goals for cutting emissions and building climate resilience, with a focus on nature-based solutions, biodiversity, and equitable access to green space. And beekeeping itself is easy here: Austin is one of the most beekeeper-friendly cities in the country, allowing hives with a water source and simple setbacks.
How an urban beekeeping program works in Austin
A living amenity tenants actually use
Year-round events
Participation data that compounds
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Meet the neighborhood bees
Indeed Tower in downtown Austin is home to a rooftop beehive that supports the building's sustainability goals and gives tenants a real connection to urban nature. The program has become a talking point for leasing teams and a source of pride for building tenants.
Turning your hives into insight
Data collection and instant reporting
Remote sensing establishes baseline indicators across your portfolio, while onsite monitoring (bioacoustics and eDNA) captures species presence and habitat quality at each property. That data feeds directly into TNFD, CSRD, and GRESB reports, generated in minutes from pre-filled templates, with audit trails showing exactly where each number comes from.
Portfolio dashboard and AI agent
See biodiversity trends across all assets, benchmark each property against portfolio average, and export site-level data for individual disclosures. Ask the AI agent questions about TNFD requirements, GRESB scoring, or site-specific risks, and get answers that reference your actual portfolio data and current framework standards.
We service hives across Austin and the Greater Austin area, including:
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FAQ
Austin is one of the most beekeeper-friendly cities in the country, allowing hives in residential zones with a water source and simple setbacks, no permit required. Texas also doesn't require state beekeeper registration, so getting started is low-friction. Alvéole handles siting and compliance for every install.
Yes. Alvéole keeps Italian honey bees, a breed known for its docility. Honey bees are not aggressive away from the hive and rarely sting unless it's disturbed. Our beekeepers site hives away from high-traffic rooftop areas and manage all hive access, so tenants interact with the program through workshops and events, not the hive directly.
A rooftop program supports the nature-based solutions and biodiversity goals in Austin's Climate Equity Plan. Each honeybee hive is paired with wild bee habitat to support native pollinators, and Alvéole's biodiversity monitoring turns your building's nature data into reporting you can use for GRESB, BOMA BEST, LEED, WELL, and other certifications.
Austin's warm climate gives one of the longest urban foraging windows in the country, roughly February through October, starting with the spring wildflower bloom. That long stretch is also when most tenant-facing events land, hive tours, harvest days, and workshops, so the program keeps giving tenants something to gather around for much of the year.
Alvéole sites hives based on local forage density rather than adding to already-busy blocks, and pairs each honeybee hive with wild bee habitat to support native pollinators too, not just honeybees.
