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.

Note: Data From Large Buildings in 2023

Note: This data only includes buildings whose emissions are reported under the Chicago Energy Benchmarking Ordinance(opens in a new tab). 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 / AddressPrimary Property Type GHG Intensity
(kg CO2 eq./sqft)
Total GHG Emissions
(tons CO2 eq.)
Hinton Elementary, William Augustus -CPS
⚠️
(CPS)
646 W 71st St
K-12 School - -
Goodlow Elementary Magnet -CPS
⚠️
(CPS)
2040 W 62nd St
K-12 School - -
Stockton Specialty, Joseph -CPS
⚠️
(CPS)
4420 N Beacon St
K-12 School - -
Spry Community Elementary -CPS
⚠️
(CPS)
2400 S Marshall Blvd
K-12 School - -
Princeton Ac
5101 S PRINCETON
- -
Brown Elementary, William H -CPS
⚠️
(CPS)
54 N Hermitage Ave
K-12 School - -
Mayo Elementary -CPS
⚠️
(CPS)
245 E 37th St
K-12 School - -
Henson Elementary, Matthew A -CPS
(CPS)
1326 S Avers Ave
K-12 School - -
Banneker Elementary -CPS
⚠️
(CPS)
6646 S Normal
K-12 School - -
Chalmers-CPS
⚠️
(CPS)
2745 W Roosevelt Rd
K-12 School - -
Kohn Elementary -CPS
(CPS)
10414 S State St
K-12 School - -
Lathrop Elementary, Julia C -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
1440 S Christiana Ave
- -
Goldblatt Elementary, Nathan R -CPS
(CPS)
4255 W Adams
K-12 School - -
Reavis Specialty Elementary -CPS
⚠️
(CPS)
834 E 50th St
K-12 School - -
John Whistler Elementary -CPS
⚠️
(CPS)
11513 S Ada St
K-12 School - -
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Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)