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.)
Former Sears store ❌ 1334 E 79TH ST		-	-
4909 W Division St ❌ 4909 W Division St	Commercial	-	-
7248 7256 N Western Ave ❌ 7248 7256 N Western Ave	Residential	-	-
The Van Buren Building ❌ 210 214 W Van Buren St	Commercial	-	-
4901 4917 W Irvingpark Rd ❌ 4901 4917 W Irvingpark Rd	Commercial	-	-
Consumer Building ❌ 211 223 S State St	Commercial	-	-
The CMP Chicago Business Center ❌ 2600 W 35th St	Commercial	-	-
Plaza Arms ❌ 501 525 N Central Ave	Residential	-	-
226 W Ontario St ❌ 226 W Ontario St	Commercial	-	-
1101 W. LAKE STREET CONDOMINIUM ❌ 1101 W Lake St	Commercial	-	-
5125 S Kenwood Ave ❌ 5125 S Kenwood Ave	Residential	-	-
1322 1328 S Wabash Ave ❌ 1322 1328 S Wabash Ave	Residential	-	-
6715 6723 S Paxton Ave ❌ 6715 6723 S Paxton Ave	Residential	-	-
3825 N Pine Grove Ave ❌ 3825 N Pine Grove Ave	Residential	-	-
Innisbrook I Condominium Association ❌ 5301 N Delphia Ave	Residential	-	-

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data