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.)
2801-13 N Leavitt Street ❌ 2801-13 N Leavitt Street	Residential	-	-
3300 S Federal St ❌ 3300 S Federal St		-	-
Cunningham Hall ❌ 3100 S Michigan Avenue	Residential	-	-
Materials & Metals Building ⚡ 3350 S Federal Street	Commercial	-	-
737 N Ada St ❌ 737 N Ada St		-	-
XS Tennis and Education Foundation ❌ 5336 S State St		-	-
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ❌ 822 N Clark St		-	-
1767 Rosehill ❌ 1767 Rosehill Dr		-	-
The Field School ❌ 517 N Parkside Ave	Commercial	-	-
900 N North Branch St ❌ 900 N North Branch St	Commercial	-	-
7122 S Jeffery Blvd ❌ 7122 S Jeffery Blvd		-	-
434 W MELROSE ST ❌ 434 W MELROSE ST		-	-
Moving Everest Charter School ❌ 416 N Laramie Ave		-	-
GEMS World Academy Chicago ❌ ⚠️ 350 E South Water St		-	-
Morgan Park Sports Center ❌ 11505 S Western Ave		-	-

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data