Give your Denver buildings an engagement program tenants talk about.
Why urban beekeeping works for Denver buildings
Denver's Green Buildings Ordinance requires buildings 25,000 square feet and larger to add a cool roof plus one green measure when they build new or replace a roof, and a vegetated roof is one of the options. Those green roofs are ready-made forage, so a hive program puts that green infrastructure to work, turning a code requirement into a tenant program.
How an urban beekeeping program works in Denver
A living amenity tenants actually use
Year-round events
Participation data that compounds
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Meet the neighborhood bees
CBRE has run Alvéole across its portfolio since 2019, now more than 45 buildings. At Denver's Triangle Building, the beehive anchors a year-round program of on-site events tenants and staff actually attend, with zero coordination from the property team.
"CBRE GWS has been working with Alvéole to improve biodiversity and employee engagement."
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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 Denver and the greater Front Range, including:
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FAQ
Denver permits beekeeping under its zoning code, with hive counts and placement rules scaled to the size of the property. Colorado has no mandatory state registration or permit, so the requirements are local. 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.
The foraging season runs roughly April through September. Denver's altitude and sharp temperature swings make timing matter more here than in most cities, which is exactly the kind of thing a managed program handles for you. That window is also when most tenant-facing events land, hive tours, harvest days, and workshops.
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.
They stay in the hive. Honey bees don't hibernate or migrate. The colony clusters around the queen and lives off the honey it stored through summer, though Denver's sunny winter days can coax them out briefly. Before winter, Alvéole winterizes each hive and confirms the colony has enough stores to reach spring. Tenant programming keeps running through the colder months with indoor workshops, and hands-on hive visits pick back up once the colony is active again.
