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Buildings Owned By
Northwestern University

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

Building Stats

  • 6 Tagged Buildings
  • Total Emissions: 35,982 metric tons CO2 equivalent

    Equivalent to 41 of the median benchmarked building (873.9 tons CO2e)

  • Average GHG Intensity: 24.4 kg CO2e/sqft

    4x the median benchmarked building (6.5 kg CO2/sqft)

Note: Data only includes large Chicago buildings from 2021, 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.

This data is also from 2021, but when new benchmark data is available, we'll update the site.

Property Name / address Primary Property Type Greenhouse Gas Intensity
(kg CO2 eq./sqft)
Total Greenhouse Emissions
(metric tons CO2 eq.)
8794
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(Northwestern)
320 E Superior Street
Laboratory
33.9 kg/sqft
#17 Highest
6,325 tons
Highest 5%
8846
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(Northwestern)
303 E Superior Street
Laboratory
29.6 kg/sqft
#27 Highest
12,415 tons
#47 Highest
8791
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(Northwestern)
300 E Superior Street
Laboratory
25.5 kg/sqft
#47 Highest
7,737 tons
Highest 4%
8799
(Northwestern)
710 N Fairbanks Ct
Laboratory
23.4 kg/sqft
Highest 2%
4,364 tons
Highest 8%
8602
(Northwestern)
710 N Lakeshore Dr
College/University
17.6 kg/sqft
Highest 5%
4,153 tons
Highest 9%
8793
(Northwestern)
310 E Superior Street
College/University
16.2 kg/sqft
Highest 6%
989 tons
Highest 46%

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