The constant improvement of the accelerator technologies for both hadron and lepton (e+e-) colliders in producing high intensity beams and consequently higher collision rates (luminosity), demands for a good understanding on machine-related backgrounds. Coping with these backgrounds is one of the leading challenges in designing the multiple purpose detectors to be located around the collision region. Background considerations influence several aspects of the design: readout segmentation, electronics shaping time, data transmission rate, triggering and radiation hardness. In this seminar I will report on a GEANT4-based simulation tool called Bruno developed for machine background estimation in an e+e- environment. Applications of this tool in the framework of the SuperB project and DAFNE-collider (KLOE-2) will be also reported.