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  • Closing the Scope 3 Data Gap — Now in IFMA’s FMJ

    Closing the Scope 3 Data Gap — Now in IFMA’s FMJ

    Now in IFMA’s FMJ · 31 August 2026

    Three steps. Same afternoon.

    Read the FMJ piece. Run the workbook. Talk about a live job.

    IFMA’s Facility Management Journal published my piece on 31 August 2026: Closing the Scope 3 Data Gap: Demanding standardized emissions data from restoration & specialty contractors. This page is the companion — not a reprint. The argument lives on FMJ. The control lives here.

    What the article argues

    Scope 3 is leaving the voluntary pile. California SB 253 and the EU CSRD pull Category 1 onto a deadline. Facility managers cannot close that inventory without data from the vendors who actually do the work — water, fire, mold, emergency mechanical. Those crews are high-intensity and almost never on a reporting stack, because they were procured as an emergency, not as a supplier program.

    • Spend-based estimates are a stopgap. Updated GHG Protocol guidance wants primary data.
    • Vendor pledges and AI principles are not a control. A policy the vendor can rewrite alone does not survive an auditor.
    • The occupier’s FM team holds the leverage: RFPs, MSAs, and the closeout packet.
    • A real control is standardized, job-level emissions data demanded in the contract — fuel, miles, waste, equipment hours — against a named methodology.

    Who this is for

    Facility managers and sustainability leads who will be asked for Category 1 numbers and do not currently get them from restoration or specialty trades. Restoration operators who want to be the vendor that can produce the packet instead of the vendor that gets swapped at renewal. Same gap. Opposite desks.

    Facility manager to restoration vendor Scope 3 data bridge
    The missing control is the bridge: the FM needs the number; the vendor already has the job file.

    What you do next

    Do not wait for a software RFP. The sequence is short:

    1. Read the FMJ piece — the case to the profession, on IFMA’s site.
    2. Run the workbook — five phases, live scoring, a paste-ready contract clause, and an exportable program summary. Work email unlocks the clause.
    3. Put it on a live job — RCP is the named methodology. Start with the Job Carbon Report template, or email will@tygartmedia.com for a walkthrough on an actual file, not a deck.
    Free interactive workbook

    Scope 3 Contractor Compliance Workbook

    Map contractor categories. Tier vendors. Unlock the clause. Export the summary. The practical half of the FMJ piece.

    Open the workbook →

    Related on Tygart Media

    Facility manager checklist · GRESB / CDP / SB 253 · Contractor ESG clauses · RCP for facility managers · Job Carbon Report template · RCP spec

    Part of the IFMA Scope 3 series. Full article: FMJ, 31 August 2026.