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
Brussels, known for its historic architecture and green spaces like Parc du Cinquantenaire and Bois de la Cambre, offers a blend of urban charm and nature. The city’s sustainability efforts include pollinator-friendly initiatives that enhance local biodiversity. Native plants such as common heather, wild thyme, and red clover flourish, providing essential habitats for pollinators and adding to Brussels’ natural beauty.
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
Woluwe Shopping Center
The Woluwe Shopping Center is home to a buzzing beehive and two wild bee habitats. Along with reinforcing their sustainability strategy, the initiative has given the shopping center a unique way to engage with customers. Information kiosks hosted by their beekeeper draw foot traffic and customized jars of honey produced by the mall's own bees make a coveted customer appreciation gift.
Belgium's National Biodiversity Strategy strives to halt biodiversity loss by encouraging collaboration among different groups, both within Belgium and internationally, while respecting the unique roles of regional and federal governments in environmental matters.
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 Brussels is regulated by regional ordinances, requiring beekeepers to register their hives with the Fédération Royale Provinciale des Sociétés d’Apiculture and adhere to guidelines regarding hive placement and maintenance to ensure public safety and harmonious coexistence with neighbors. Alvéole’s professional beekeepers ensure compliance with all local and regional regulations in Brussels.
Urban beekeeping is safe, with many successful bee programs operating throughout Brussels. 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 Brussels' sustainability efforts, including initiatives to promote green spaces, biodiversity, and environmental education. Alvéole's approach to beekeeping contributes to Brussels' broader goals of creating a more sustainable urban environment.