English Summary

In recent years, companies have shown rapidly increasing interest in indicators and indices which allow measuring resource use and resource efficiency.
Despite significant scientific advances regarding indicators for resource use and resource efficiency in the past few years, deficits still exist regarding the adaptation for and barriers in the application of these concepts on the level of products, services and companies.

In close cooperation with three Austrian companies, the BRIX project develops an index based on resource use indicators, the Business Resource Intensity Index (BRIX). The BRIX index will allow these companies to measure and optimise resource use and resource efficiency of their products and services. This project aims to contribute to a broader application of concepts and indicators of resource use in companies by developing guidelines for the methodological harmonisation and standardisation of different indicator approaches, by developing a new index (the Business Resource Intensity Index - BRIX) and by establishing a new software-based tool, which allows companies to realise improvements in resource efficiency in a systematic and comprehensive manner.
The BRIX index will be designed in way that allows future adaptations for other companies and economic sectors.