Electrify Chicago
An independent tool for viewing City of Chicago building data
According to the
2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan,
69% of Chicago's emissions come from buildings, making
building emissions our biggest challenge and our biggest opportunity as a city
to tackle climate change. At Electrify Chicago, we showcase building performance using
publicly available data supplemented by community-submitted photographs and building
owners.
Start by looking at Chicago's buildings with the highest greenhouse gas intensity i.e. emissions per square foot. Large, efficient, buildings can perform much better than very inefficient small buildings on this metric.
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Chicago Buildings by Greenhouse Gas Intensity
Note: Data From Large Buildings in 2022
Note: This data only includes buildings whose emissions are reported
under the
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Ordinance. According to the City โAs of 2016,
this list includes all commercial, institutional, and residential buildings larger than
50,000 square feet.โ This dataset is also then filtered to only buildings with
reported emissions > 1,000 metric tons CO2 equivalent.
The latest year of data is from 2022, but we update the site regularly when new data is available, and some buildings may have failed to report that year, and only have older data available.
Additionally, note that all tons specified are metric tons.
Name / Address | Primary Property Type |
GHG Intensity (kg CO2 eq./sqft) |
Total GHG Emissions (tons CO2 eq.) |
---|---|---|---|
Cummings Life Science Center
๐ฐ๏ธ
920 E 58th St
| Laboratory | 45.3 kg/sqft | 7,816 tons |
Whole Foods KBS
๐จ
1550 N Kingsbury St
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 45.0 kg/sqft #8 Highest
| 3,368 tons
Highest 11%
|
SBRI
๐ฐ๏ธ
5812 S Ellis Ave
| Laboratory | 43.7 kg/sqft | 9,374 tons |
Armour
๐ฐ๏ธ
950 E 59TH
| Laboratory | 43.7 kg/sqft | 2,834 tons |
KCBD
๐ฐ๏ธ
900 E. 57th St
| Laboratory | 42.9 kg/sqft | 16,175 tons |
William Eckhardt Research Center
๐จ
๐ท
(UChicago)
5640 S ELLIS AVE
| Laboratory | 40.9 kg/sqft #9 Highest
| 11,639 tons
Highest 2%
|
Peck
๐ฐ๏ธ
5821 S Drexel Ave
| Laboratory | 40.4 kg/sqft | 5,044 tons |
Gordon Center for Integrative Science (GCIS)
๐จ
๐ท
(UChicago)
929 E 57th St
| Laboratory | 40.0 kg/sqft #10 Highest
| 19,164 tons #16 Highest
|
MetraMarket of Chicago
๐ฐ๏ธ
118 N. Canal Street
| Mixed Use Property | 37.4 kg/sqft | 2,350 tons |
McGowan North
๐ฉ
(DePaul)
2325 N Clifton Ave
| College/University | 36.8 kg/sqft #11 Highest
| 2,063 tons
Highest 22%
|
Pete's Pulaski
๐ฉ
4343 S Pulaski Rd
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 33.4 kg/sqft #12 Highest
| 1,869 tons
Highest 25%
|
Whole Foods
๐ฉ
3201 N ASHLAND AVE
| Supermarket/Grocery Store | 32.8 kg/sqft #13 Highest
| 2,692 tons
Highest 16%
|
320 E Superior Street
๐ฉ
(Northwestern)
320 E Superior Street
| Laboratory | 32.5 kg/sqft #14 Highest
| 6,075 tons
Highest 5%
|
Carlson
๐ฐ๏ธ
949 E 58th St
| Laboratory | 32.4 kg/sqft | 2,169 tons |
Hinds Laboratory
๐ฉ
๐ท
(UChicago)
5734 S Ellis Ave
| Laboratory | 32.3 kg/sqft #15 Highest
| 4,237 tons
Highest 9%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data