All Buildings By Greenhouse Gas Intensity

These are the Chicago's benchmarked buildings that reported 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.

3,852 Chicago buildings have submitted data and are ranked below. This doesn't include the 396 buildings that have never submitted data, since we have nothing to rank them by.

Note: Data From Large Buildings in 2023

Note: This data only includes buildings whose emissions are reported under the Chicago Energy Benchmarking Ordinance. According to the City “As of 2016, this list includes all commercial, institutional, and residential buildings larger than 50,000 square feet.”

The latest year of data is from 2023, 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.)
1134 S Wood St ❌ 1134 S Wood St	Commercial	-	-
210 N Aberdeen St ❌ 210 N Aberdeen St	Residential	-	-
1802 W Berenice Ave ❌ 1802 W Berenice Ave	Residential	-	-
9621 S Cottage Grove Ave ❌ 9621 S Cottage Grove Ave	Commercial	-	-
Post Chicago ❌ 853 W Blackhawk St	Residential	-	-
753 W 79th St ❌ 753 W 79th St		-	-
Foundry ❌ 1475 N Kingsbury St		-	-
1203 N California Ave ❌ 1203 N California Ave	Residential	-	-
The Seng ❌ 869 W Blackhawk St	Residential	-	-
145 N Damen Ave ❌ 145 N Damen Ave		-	-
Thrive Englewood ❌ 6249 S Sangamon St		-	-
Encuentro Square ❌ 1844 N Ridgeway Ave	Commercial	-	-
Encuentro Square ❌ 3759 W Cortland St	Commercial	-	-
The Porter ❌ 2411 N Lincoln Ave	Residential	-	-
2924 W Medill Ave ❌ 2924 W Medill Ave	Residential	-	-

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data