AGC Carbon Reporting Flow Charts: What GCs Need to Know

AGC released new carbon reporting flow charts timed to Earth Day, designed to help construction firms understand when and how carbon data requirements apply to their projects. The resource targets members facing owner-driven or state-mandated carbon disclosures, which are expanding unevenly across markets. The flow charts are procedural guides, not a policy position, and are aimed at firms that haven’t yet formalized a carbon tracking process.

This isn’t a sustainability story. It’s a scope creep story. Carbon reporting requirements are landing in owner RFPs and public project specs without any consistent standard behind them, which means estimators are being asked to price something they can’t define. A bid that doesn’t account for third-party carbon verification, material environmental product declarations, or subcontractor reporting requirements is a bid that will get picked apart in pre-award. The firms that get ahead of this now, even just by knowing what questions to ask at the RFP stage, will close faster and negotiate better than the ones treating it as someone else’s problem.

Read the full story at AGC News.