For Industry Leadership
Is your organization ready to govern this standard?
The restoration industry has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to lead commercial real estate on Scope 3 compliance. The infrastructure is built and open source. What it needs now is formal industry governance.
Restoration Carbon Protocol v1.0 — The first open industry standard for calculating, documenting, and reporting Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions from restoration contractor work. Published April 2026. Free to use, implement, and build upon.
Questions or contributions: rcp@tygartmedia.com | Framework version: RCP v1.0 | Schema: RCP-JCR-1.0
Start Here
If you are new to the RCP, read these three articles in order. They cover why this standard exists, where restoration contractor emissions appear in commercial property reporting, and what the framework requires.
- What Is Scope 3 and Why Restoration Contractors Need to Care
- How Commercial Property Managers Are Counting Your Emissions (Whether You Know It or Not)
- Introducing the Restoration Carbon Protocol: An Industry Self-Standard for Scope 3 Reporting
The Complete Framework
The single canonical reference document — all five job types, the 12-point data standard, emission factors, JSON schema, governance model, and versioning policy in one place.
Regulatory Context
The deadlines and disclosure frameworks driving commercial property managers to request contractor Scope 3 data.
- The 2027 Deadline: What California SB 253 Means for Your Restoration Business
- The GHG Protocol’s 15 Scope 3 Categories: Which Ones Apply to Restoration Work
- How Restoration Work Shows Up in GRESB and CDP Disclosures
- RCP and SBTi: What Restoration Contractors Need to Know About Science-Based Targets
- RCP and EU CSRD: What US Contractors with EU-Exposed Clients Need to Know
- FEMA Contracting and ESG: What Government Disaster Response Requires
Technical Calculation Guides — By Job Type
Each guide contains the actual emission factors, calculation methodology, worked examples, and proxy values for that restoration category. These are the source-of-record methodology documents for each job type.
- Water Damage Restoration: Scope 3 Emissions Mapping and Calculation Guide
- Fire and Smoke Restoration: Scope 3 Emissions Mapping and Calculation Guide
- Mold Remediation: Scope 3 Emissions Mapping and Calculation Guide
- Asbestos and Hazmat Abatement: Scope 3 Emissions Mapping and Calculation Guide
- Biohazard and Trauma Scene Cleanup: Scope 3 Emissions Mapping and Calculation Guide
Data Standard and Reference
The inputs, factors, formats, and schemas that make RCP calculations reproducible and auditable.
- The 12 Data Points Every Restoration Job Ticket Needs for Scope 3 Compliance
- RCP Emission Factor Reference Table: All Values in One Place
- RCP Proxy Estimation Guide: How to Calculate When Primary Data Is Missing
- The RCP Job Carbon Report: Template, Fields, and Example Values
- RCP JSON Schema v1.0 — The Machine-Readable Data Standard (for developers and ESG platforms)
Commercial Application
How to deliver RCP data to clients, position your company, and navigate specific commercial requirements.
- How to Provide Scope 3 Data to Your Commercial Property Manager Clients
- Building an ESG-Ready Vendor Profile for Commercial Restoration
- The RCP Job Carbon Report: Template, Fields, and Example Values
- How to Become an RCP-Certified Restoration Contractor
- The ESG Case for the Restoration Golf League: A Network That Sets Standards
Reducing Your Footprint
Measurement without a reduction trajectory is compliance theater. This playbook covers fleet electrification, material substitution, route optimization, and waste diversion — with a year-by-year roadmap to 30% reduction by 2030.
For Software Developers and ESG Platforms
Everything needed to implement RCP data capture natively in restoration job management software or to ingest RCP records into an ESG data management platform.
- RCP JSON Schema v1.0 — The Machine-Readable Data Standard
- How to Integrate RCP Data into Encircle, PSA, Dash, and Xcelerate
Audit Readiness
As Scope 3 verification requirements expand under SB 253, CSRD, and GRESB, contractor data will face increasing scrutiny. This guide prepares you.
FAQ and Knowledge Stack
- The Restoration Carbon Protocol FAQ: Every Question We’ve Heard
- RCP and KnowHow: How the Internal and External Knowledge Stacks Work Together
Contribute to the RCP
The RCP is an open standard. Contributions from contractors, software vendors, ESG consultants, property managers, and researchers are actively welcomed. The current contribution process: propose a change to rcp@tygartmedia.com with technical rationale and sources. Accepted contributions are credited in version release notes.
Priority areas for RCP v1.1: LCA-based material emission factors, EV fleet proxy values, regional proxy rates outside the continental US, subcontractor emissions inclusion methodology.
To discuss RCP adoption at the industry level or partnership with RIA: will@tygartmedia.com
Carbon Avoidance Framework
Beyond measuring what emissions occurred, the RCP supports documenting emissions that didn’t happen — through dry-in-place decisions, waste diversion, and low-emission equipment substitution. This is the data commercial clients with SBTi commitments need to demonstrate supply chain reduction progress.
API Reference — For Developers and ESG Platforms
Query all RCP articles, emission factors, and schema documentation programmatically via REST API. Includes existing WordPress endpoints and the planned tygart/v1/rcp endpoints for v1.1.