Waste elimination is becoming decidedly less wasteful at the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI). As part of a larger capital improvement program managed by Jones Lang LaSalle, the MSI is nearing the completion of

A model home for the Historic Chicago Bungalow Association’s (HCBA) Greener Homes For Belmont-Cragin program. During the construction process, the home was used as a learning lab, instructing residents on techniques for restoring windows, insulation and air sealing, and landscaping.

Chicago Green Homes (CGH) is the city’s green certification program for small residential projects. Most of the concepts are similar to LEED®, but whereas LEED® is fairly performance-based, requiring a certain amount of research and calculation to demonstrate compliance with each credit, Chicago Green Homes is more prescriptive, which is easy for small projects to use.

Location
2916 W. 47th St., Chicago, IL 60632  Map
Owner
United Neighborhood Organization
Architect
Austin AECOM
Officer Donald Marquez Charter School is one of two green school renovations underway by the United Neighborhood Organiozation (UNO). This first project is housed in a former Misericordia home for disabled children in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. The two & four story, 58,150 sf building [...]

Location
1328 W. Morse, Chicago, IL 60626  Map
Owner
1328 Morse LLC
Architect
Greene & Proppe Design 
 The Morse Theater is a renovation of a nearly-abandoned 1912 Nickelodeon theater building into a 299-seat music venue and a 99-seat restaurant (The Century Public House). The renovation includes all-new interior structure and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, including addition of a mezzanine bringing [...]

Location
2125 W. North, Chicago, IL 60647  Map
Owner
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Architect
Jonathan Boyer
(Now of Farr Associates)
The Center for Neighborhood Technology’s (CNT) 15,000 sf renovation of their Wicker Park home in a former weaving factory was the second LEED® Platinum certified building in Chicago (CCGT was the first). Having received its certification in 2005 and being completed more [...]