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.)
1016 W Hollywood Ave ❌ 1016 W Hollywood Ave	Residential	-	-
1604 1610 W Sherwin Ave ❌ 1604 1610 W Sherwin Ave	Residential	-	-
1521 1523 W SHERWIN AVE ❌ 1521 1523 W SHERWIN AVE		-	-
7419 7425 S COLFAX AVE ❌ 7419 7425 S COLFAX AVE		-	-
840 S Canal St ❌ 840 S Canal St	Commercial	-	-
Transforming Housing III ❌ 7000 S Parnell Ave	Residential	-	-
Allstate Building ❌ 3245 W Arthington St	Commercial	-	-
Mayan Lagoon Apartments ❌ 1345 1359 W Estes Ave	Residential	-	-
4950 4952 S Prairie Ave ❌ 4950 4952 S Prairie Ave	Residential	-	-
4520 4528 S Drexel Blvd ❌ 4520 4528 S Drexel Blvd	Residential	-	-
5527 5537 S EVERETT AVE ❌ 5527 5537 S EVERETT AVE		-	-
6747 6759 S OGLESBY AVE ❌ 6747 6759 S OGLESBY AVE		-	-

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data