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.)
2 East Erie Condominium Association ❌ 2 East Erie Street	Multifamily Housing	-	-
Park Place Chicago Condominium Association ❌ 600 N. Kingsbury Street	Multifamily Housing	-	-
The Farallon Condominium ❌ 600 N Dearborn St.	Multifamily Housing	-	-
5601 N Sheridan Rd ❌ 5601 N Sheridan Rd	Residential	-	-
Wilson Windsor Apartments ❌ 915 W Wilson Ave	Residential	-	-
4526 N SHERIDAN RD ❌ 4526 N SHERIDAN RD		-	-
315 N Racine Ave ❌ 315 N Racine Ave	Commercial	-	-
5638 5646 N Clark St ❌ 5638 5646 N Clark St	Residential	-	-
7540 7554 S Stony Island ❌ 7540 7554 S Stony Island	Commercial	-	-
5020 5030 S Woodlawn Ave ❌ 5020 5030 S Woodlawn Ave	Residential	-	-
3000 3030 W Marquette Rd ⚠️ 3000 3030 W Marquette Rd	Residential	-	-
540 N Lasalle St ❌ 540 N Lasalle St	Commercial	-	-
6700 S Constance Ave ❌ 6700 S Constance Ave	Residential	-	-
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts ❌ 361 W Chestnut St	Commercial	-	-
4554 N Broadway St ❌ 4554 N Broadway St	Commercial	-	-

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data