Green Building Tours

Chicago is home to some of the country’s most innovative and beautiful buildings, and we’ve organized tours exclusively for Greenbuild attendees. A wide variety of half- and full-day tours, including the Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio and the LEED Platinum Chicago Center for Green Technology, will be offered on Friday, Nov. 9th and Saturday, Nov. 10th.

Special Wednesday Tours

Wednesday, Nov 7
11:30PM, 1:30PM, and 3:30PM

(These tours free to all attendees.)

Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT) and UIUC Solar Decathlon House
Trolleys will be departing from the McCormick Place South Building Terminal Entrance.
Come and tour the newly renovated Chicago Center for Green Technology. The tour will feature information on the design and history of the center, the new Resource Center, and a special tour of the University of Illinois — Urbana Champaign Solar Decathlon Team’s solar-powered home.

Half Day Tours
Friday, Nov. 9, 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm

A Proud and Soaring Thing: Chicago's LEED High-Rises (walking)
111 South Wacker; One South Dearborn; 340 On the Park

Competing in the Convention Marketplace (walking)
McCormick Place West Building

From Good to Great: Large-Scale LEED for Existing Buildings (walking)
ABN AMRO Plaza

From the Inside Out: LEED for Commercial Interiors (walking)
Haworth Showroom; IIDA Headquarters; Kimball Showroom; AIA Chicago Offices

Platinum Performance
Center for Neighborhood Technology; Chicago Center for Green Technology

The Urban Green Roof (walking)
Chicago Cultural Center; City Hall; Millennium Park

High Performance in Higher Education
Loyola Information Commons and Digital Library; Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies

Green Past & Future: Lessons from the 1st & 2nd Chicago School (walking)

Monadnock Building; Rookery Building; Inland Steel

Green Retail
Whole Foods; Wal-Mart

Half Day Tours

Saturday, Nov. 10, 8:00am-12:00pm

Sustainability in a Chicago Community
Infant Welfare Society; Christopher House; Blooingdale Trail; Paseo Prairie Garden; Logan Square Open Space Plan; Active Living Logan Square Initiative

Green Urban Systems and Infrastructure

Stormwater Management; Urban Heat Island Reduction; Research & Development; Chicago's Complete Streets

Green Multi-Family Housing

Rubloff Hall, St. Xavier University; Wentworth Common

Full Day Tours
Saturday, Nov. 10, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Environmental Design Pioneer: Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio and Walking Tour; Unity Temple

High Performance in K-12 Education
Bolingbrook High School; Tarkington Elementary School

Prairie Crossing: A Sustainable Rail Suburb
The Evelyn Pease Tyner Interpretive Center; Prairie Crossing

Showcasing Social and Environmental Innovation
Center on Halsted; Margot and Harold Schiff Residences; Pacific Garden Mission

LEED For-Profit: The Suburban Office Market
HSBC North American Corporate Headquarters; 8045 Lamon Avenue at Illinois Science & Technology Park