BRIX – Business Resource Intensity Index

This project aims at developing a system to measure and assess the resource intensity of products, services and companies – the Business Resource Intensity Index (BRIX). To realise that, the project consortium cooperates closely with three Austrian companies.

The efficient use of natural resources is becoming more and more important for companies, resulting in a growing interest and demand for indicators and indices to measure the resource use and resource efficiency of their products and services.

Various methods and indicators have already been developed in the past, however, harmonisation and integration of these methods on the level of products, services and companies is still missing. This is the precondition to create an aggregated measurement tool which can be implemented by companies.

This project aims at developing such an integrated and consistent tool – the Business Resource Intensity Index (BRIX) – to measure and assess the resource intensity of products, services and companies. The project consortium (SERI as coordinating institute, ÖIN, plenum, Faktor 10 Institute and Wuppertal Institute) is cooperating closely with three Austrian companies (Lenzing AG, Rhomberg Bau GmbH, Grüne Erde GmbH). The BRIX index will be implemented by the means of a computer based tool and enable the companies to measure and optimize the resource use and eco-efficiency of their products and production sites.