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Buildings Owned By
University of Chicago

These are buildings that we have manually tagged as being owned by University of Chicago, so this may not be a definitive list.

Building Stats

  • 23 Tagged Buildings
  • Total Emissions: 211,525 metric tons CO2 equivalent

    Equivalent to 239 of the median benchmarked building (885.8 tons CO2e)

  • Average GHG Intensity: 19.4 kg CO2e/sqft

    3x the median benchmarked building (6.4 kg CO2/sqft)

Note: Data includes large Chicago buildings with data from 2022, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

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.” This dataset is also then filtered to only buildings with reported emissions > 1,000 metric tons CO2 equivalent.

The latest year of data is from 2022, 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.

Property Name / address Primary Property Type Greenhouse Gas Intensity
(kg CO2 eq./sqft)
Total Greenhouse Emissions
(metric tons CO2 eq.)
6045 Kenwood Building
🚨 📷
(UChicago)
6045 S Kenwood Ave
Office
79.7 kg/sqft
#3 Highest
7,900 tons
Highest 4%
Searle Chemistry Laboratory
🚨 📷
(UChicago)
5735 S Ellis Ave
Laboratory
49.0 kg/sqft
#6 Highest
4,193 tons
Highest 9%
William Eckhardt Research Center
🚨 📷
(UChicago)
5640 S ELLIS AVE
Laboratory
40.9 kg/sqft
#9 Highest
11,639 tons
Highest 2%
Gordon Center for Integrative Science (GCIS)
🚨 📷
(UChicago)
929 E 57th St
Laboratory
40.0 kg/sqft
#10 Highest
19,164 tons
#16 Highest
Hinds Laboratory
🚩 📷
(UChicago)
5734 S Ellis Ave
Laboratory
32.3 kg/sqft
#15 Highest
4,237 tons
Highest 9%
5841 S. Maryland Ave MC0985
🚨
(UChicago)
5841 S. Maryland Ave MC0985
Hospital (General Medical & Surgical)
25.0 kg/sqft
#27 Highest
135,876 tons
#1 Highest
Jones Laboratory
🚩
(UChicago)
5747 S Ellis Ave
Laboratory
23.5 kg/sqft
#39 Highest
1,699 tons
Highest 27%
Accelerator/High Energy Physics
📷
(UChicago)
5604 - 5620 S Ellis Ave
Laboratory
20.9 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
1,231 tons
Highest 38%
Ratner Athletics Center
(UChicago)
5530 S Ellis Ave
Fitness Center/Health Club/Gym
18.9 kg/sqft
Highest 3%
3,186 tons
Highest 12%
Charles M. Harper Cetner (Booth School)
(UChicago)
5807 S Woodlawn Ave
College/University
11.1 kg/sqft
Highest 10%
4,640 tons
Highest 7%
Bookstore
(UChicago)
970 E 58th St
Retail Store
9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
494 tons
Lowest 26%
Kersten Physics Teaching Center
(UChicago)
5720 S Ellis Ave
College/University
9.9 kg/sqft
Highest 14%
588 tons
Lowest 33%
Renee Granville-Grossman Residential Commons
(UChicago)
6031 S Ellis Ave
Residence Hall/Dormitory
9.6 kg/sqft
Highest 15%
3,247 tons
Highest 12%
Crerar Library
(UChicago)
5730 S Ellis Ave
Library
9.4 kg/sqft
Highest 16%
1,582 tons
Highest 30%
Bond Chapel/ Cobb, Swift, Haskell, Wieboldt, Goodspeed, Gates, and Blake Hall
(UChicago)
5811 - 5827 S Ellis Ave
College/University
8.4 kg/sqft
Highest 22%
669 tons
Lowest 38%
Gleacher Center
(UChicago)
450 N Cityfront Plz
College/University
8.3 kg/sqft
Highest 23%
1,781 tons
Highest 26%
Saieh Hall for Economics
(UChicago)
5757 S University Ave
College/University
8.2 kg/sqft
Highest 24%
1,251 tons
Highest 38%
1155 E 60th St
(UChicago)
1155 E 60th St
College/University
7.8 kg/sqft
Highest 27%
1,457 tons
Highest 32%
Campus Residential North Commons
(UChicago)
5500 S UNIVERSITY AVE
Residence Hall/Dormitory
7.0 kg/sqft
Highest 39%
2,919 tons
Highest 14%
Law/ Mott/ Social Service Admin/ Faculty Housing
(UChicago)
1111 E 60th St
Multifamily Housing
6.9 kg/sqft
Highest 41%
445 tons
Lowest 21%
Beecher, Kelley, Green, Foster, Social Science Research Building
(UChicago)
1126 E 59th St
College/University
6.8 kg/sqft
Highest 43%
477 tons
Lowest 24%
International House
(UChicago)
1414 E 59th St
Residence Hall/Dormitory
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
1,535 tons
Highest 31%
Burton-Judson Courts
(UChicago)
1005 E 60th St
Residence Hall/Dormitory
6.5 kg/sqft
Highest 49%
1,318 tons
Highest 36%

Data Source: Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data (opens in a new tab)