The Building Energy Efficiency Survey (BEES) reports on the non-domestic building stock in England and Wales in 2014–15. Within this overall scope the stock is split into 10 sectors. These are in turn made up of 38 sub-sectors, each of which was analysed separately. The overarching report describes the results from across the 10 sectors, whilst more detail is provided in 10 separate sector-specific reports. The BEES study was designed to meet the following research objectives:

• To update understanding of how energy is used, for a snap-shot in time, across the non-domestic building stock in England and Wales in more detail than is currently available;
• To update understanding of how energy use can be reduced across the non-domestic building stock in more detail than is currently available at present;
• To understand the barriers and facilitators of energy abatement.