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.)
Hyatt House Chicago ❌ 1835 W Harrison St	Lodging	-	-
6455 W Belle Plaine Ave ❌ 6455 W Belle Plaine Ave	Residential	-	-
3506 S State St ❌ (CHA) 3506 S State St	Residential	-	-
5337 5353 N Delphia Ave ❌ 5337 5353 N Delphia Ave	Residential	-	-
5300 5308 S Pulaski Rd ❌ 5300 5308 S Pulaski Rd	Residential	-	-
Poinsettia Apartments ❌ 5528 5530 S Hyde Park Blvd	Residential	-	-
The Whitehall Hotel ❌ 103 109 E Delaware Pl	Residential	-	-
426 432 W BRIAR PL ❌ 426 432 W BRIAR PL		-	-
5816 N Sheridan Rd ❌ 5816 N Sheridan Rd	Residential	-	-
Drexel Square ❌ 810 E Hyde Park Blvd	Residential	-	-
Loyola Beach Apartments ❌ 7064 N Sheridan Rd	Residential	-	-
5416 5422 N KENMORE AVE ❌ 5416 5422 N KENMORE AVE		-	-
6705 6707 N CALIFORNIA AVE ❌ 6705 6707 N CALIFORNIA AVE		-	-
6001 N KENMORE AVE ❌ 6001 N KENMORE AVE		-	-
Kenmore Realty Apartments ❌ 6011 6015 N Kenmore Ave	Residential	-	-

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data