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.)
3636 3646 S Iron St ❌ 3636 3646 S Iron St	Commercial	-	-
8704 S Constance Ave ❌ 8704 S Constance Ave	Commercial	-	-
One West Monroe ❌ 1 W Monroe St		-	-
"I AM" Temple of Chicago ❌ 176 W Washington St	Commercial	-	-
401 E Ontario St ❌ 401 E Ontario St	Commercial	-	-
1335 1345 W Lake St ❌ 1335 1345 W Lake St	Commercial	-	-
3913 3959 W Madison St ❌ 3913 3959 W Madison St	Commercial	-	-
4000 4006 W North Ave ❌ 4000 4006 W North Ave	Commercial	-	-
646 652 S Clark St ❌ 646 652 S Clark St	Residential	-	-
Huron Street Lofts ❌ 217 235 W Huron St	Residential	-	-
Life Changers International Church ❌ 1337 W 15th St	Commercial	-	-
Chicago Medical Training Office ❌ 7431 7445 S East End Ave	Commercial	-	-
3510 3524 S Western Ave ❌ 3510 3524 S Western Ave	Commercial	-	-
2430 2458 W George St ❌ 2430 2458 W George St	Commercial	-	-
2290 S Grove Street ❌ 2290 S Grove Street	Commercial	-	-

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data