Almost half of the GHGs in a concrete and glass high-rise building are the result of construction and materials (called the Embodied GHGs). And the fact is that this sort of building project does severe damage to Evanston’s climate goals. Strong wind conditions are exacerbated when a high-rise is too close to the street, like the proposed 605 Davis building. Yet the developer’s wind study fails to take that into account the impact of climate change in the coming decades. It should be no surprise that residents of downtown Evanston are virtually unanimous in their opposition to the proposed project.