Wentworth Commons; 11045 South Wentworth; Mercy Housing Lakefront; Harley Ellis Devereaux

• Brightly-colored graffiti-resistant exterior

• Low emission materials• Concrete with fly ash• Reflective roof• Highly-insulated envelope• Bioswales in back• Extensive remediation as

the site was dry cleaner facility

• Rooftop photo voltaic array

Rubloff Hall; 10204 South Central Park; St. Xavier University; Soloman Cordwell Buenz

• Seeking LEED silver certification

• 13% green roof• Saint Xavier campus

collects rainwater in central pond for all irrigation needs

• 26% less energy use due to a variety of building strategies

Washington Park SRO; 5000 South Indiana; Affordable Housing Preservation Foundation; Piekarz Associates PC

• Renovation of 50-year old SRO unit

• Seeking LEED silver certification

• Geothermal heating/cooling system

• Highly efficient building envelope

• Solar-thermal water heating

• Permeable paver parking areas and walkways

Bethel Center; 4000 West Lake Street; Bethel New Life; Farr Associates

• Received LEED gold certification• Highly-insulated envenlope• Solarcrete wall system• 50% energy reduction• Daylight responsive light dimming• Light shelves and skylights• Greenroof• Array of solar electric panels• Low VOC paint• Recycled content materials• Building connects to “L” station• Socially-conscious as well, houses

community development corporation responsible for over 100 new homes in economically depressed area

Greenworks; 457 North Sacramento; Christy Webber Landscapes; Farr Associates

• Seeking LEED Gold• Part of large eco-industrial

park that formerly held a City of Chicago auto pound

• Anchor of Daley’s new “Green town” corridor initiative

• Stormwater retention pond in center of the new development

• Bioswales along property lines• Green roof with trees• Good solar orientation• Well-insulated envelope• Wind turnbine• Geothermal water system

Cook County Domestic Violence Courthouse; 555 West Harrison; Cook County; Booth Hansen

• Seeking LEED Silver certification

• Adaptive reuse of 1892 building

• Solar electric (photovotaic) array on the roof)

• Forest Stewardship Certified wood products (50%)

• Showers for cyclists

Spetus Institute of Jewish Studies; 610 South Michigan Avenue; SIJS; Krueck and Sexton Architects

• Targeting LEED Silver

• Green roof• Low-flow plumbing• Recycled materials

111 South Wacker; The John Buck Company; Goettsch Partners

• First ever building to receive Core and Shell Gold LEED certification

• green roofs, low-flow faucets and urinals, native plantings, recycled-content materials, and low-VOC paints and carpeting. Like any new office tower, the glass is energy-efficient and a reasonably efficient (but not exotic) mechanical system is used

1 South Dearborn Street; Hines; Richard Keating and DeStephano and Partners

• Earned LEED for Core and Shell Silver certification

• includes a fitness center with showers (common in this type of building), probably not included just for bicycle commuters' benefit, but accessible to them nonetheless.

• Hines also uses a low-temperature (48ºF) HVAC system as standard on it buildings, contributing toward energy savings, and has a standard commissioning process used on all buildings.

• The project includes the usual mix of low-VOC and recycled-content materials and claims a fairly high amount (41%) of regionally assembled materials

340 On the Park; 340 East Randolph Street; LR Development Company; Soloman Cordwell Buenz

• This is the first residential high-rise in Chicago seeking LEED certification

• Outside of the standard green roof, low-voc paints, and local and recycled content materials, some mechanical features are the most unusual aspect of the design

• The project also includes a large bike room (over 300 spaces) and stormwater collection for irrigation. LR notes they have been surprised by the high level of recycled and regional content they've achieved, but this seems typical for Chicago-area projects. They market bamboo flooring as the 'public face' of their greenness - also a common tactic, and fine as long as there is more to green claims than that

300 North LaSalle Street; Hines; Pickard Chilton, and Kendall Heaton Associates

• Project has earned LEED Gold pre-certification

• Green roof• Plus everything found in 1 South

Dearborn, Hine’s first downtown green tower

• The project's location on the north bank of the Chicago River provides a nice opportunity for a waterfront amenity space, and together with (non-green) Trump Tower and Waterview Tower, notably alters the high-rise landscape along the river. However, this location also allows the project to claim green features not available to many projects, including discharging storm water directly into the river (rather than burdening the city sewer) and using river water for irrigation

Near North SRO; 1244 North Clybourn; Mercy Housing Lakefront; Murphy Jahn

• Aerotecture wind turbines on roof

• Greywater circulation system

• Permeable pavement parking lot

• SRO for CHA waiting list

Clybourn Point; 1322 North Clybourn; Rada Development; Rada Architects

• Seeking LEED Silver• Green roof• Rainwater collection• Bamboo flooring• Most windows are on the

northeast elevation, helping to tame the difficult-to-control western sun. Less popular features include solar electric (PV) panels and decorative exterior LED lighting.

Norman Residence; 1729 West Potomac; HN Builders; Norsman Architects

• ground-source heat pump HVAC system, rooftop wind turbines (not shown in the image), highly insulated walls and windows, rainwater harvesting for irrigation, and a green roof

Mauceri Residence; 1825 West Wabansia; Frank and Lisa Mauceri; Wilkinson Blender Architects

• 3 Aerotecture wind turbines, 30 solar electric panels, and geothermal heating and cooling.

• Other strategies employed include the salvage of existing masonry for structural reconfiguration, salvage of existing roof joists for architectural applications, and terrazzo floor containing recycled glass and owner-supplied vinyl albums. Roof runoff water is captured and recycled for irrigation. The project earned a two-star rating in the Chicago Green Homes pilot rating system and was selected for a Chicago Department of Environment Green Roof Grant.

W Residence; 2822 North Kedzie; Brian Warling and Lisa Wright; John Joyce Architects

• The only visibly green feature of this project is a green roof. Most of the remaining deliberately green features are in the project's energy efficiency, including highly insulated walls (up to R-30 soy-based insulation), a high-efficiency furnace and air conditioner, and Energy Star lighting. The overall project is seeking an Energy Star rating, which is essentially a requirement for any small residential project to legitimately call itself green

Center on Halsted; 3656 North Halsted; Chicago LGBT community center; Gensler

• Two fundamental design elements of this project have an interesting relationship to green design. First is the placement of parking (serving Whole Foods) underground. Due to its high cost, this is rarely seen outside of the central business district, so it's nice to see the investment here. The underground parking eliminates a surface parking lot while preserving the neighborhood's three-story character

• The project's most novel green feature is a greywater system that collects roof runoff, stores it in a tank in the basement, and then filters and treats the water prior to using it to flush toilets

Loyola Information Commons; 6501 North Kenmore; Loyola University Chicago; Solonman Cordwell Buenz

• This is probably the most cutting-edge commercial green project currently underway in Chicago, because it seeks to integrate the architecture and engineering systems in a manner only widely seen in Europe. This is surely partly due to the German firm Transsolar's role as indoor climate consultant. The project is seeking LEED Silver certification

• This is the first building in Chicago with a double-skin facade, but there are others in the U.S., such as the Seattle Justice Center and Manulife Tower in Boston