Tool summary

Name of the tool
BEES (Building for Environment and Economic Sustainability)

Description of the tool
Over the last eight years, the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed and automated an approach for measuring the life-cycle environmental and economic performance of building products. Known as BEES® (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability), the tool is based on consensus standards and designed to be practical, flexible, and transparent. BEES reduces complex, science-based technical content (e.g., over 400 material and energy flows from raw material extraction through product disposal) to decision-enabling results and delivers them in a visually intuitive graphical format.

Specific topic
The environmental and economic performance of building products.

Sector/s of use

Waste	Energy	Water	Transport	Green/Blue	Building & Land use
0	1	1	0	0	1

M - main sector, 1 - sub sector and 0 - n/a

Scale of applications

Component	Building	Neighbourhood	City	Region
1	0	0	0	0