Built by Contractors. Shaped by Contractors.

The Contractor's Commitment isn't a certification handed down from outside the industry. It's a standard built from the inside, and the community behind it is a big part of what makes it work.

Signatories

What You Get as a Signatory

Primary Benefits

  • Regulatory Readiness: Stay ahead of expanding carbon and waste tracking mandates before they become urgent compliance issues.

  • Competitive Differentiation: A verifiable, industry-recognized credential that goes into RFP responses and client conversations.

  • ESG Alignment:Your project data maps to global reporting frameworks, which simplifies investor and stakeholder disclosures.

  • Corporate Carbon Benchmarking: See where your firm stands relative to industry peers across all five pillars.

  • Industry Leadership Visibility: Your company name on the committed firms list, backed by USGBC-CA.

Secondary Benefits and Community Access

  • Achievement certificates and digital badges for RFPs, your website, and client presentations

  • Access to working group sessions where signatories help shape the standards, not just follow them

  • Equipment demonstrations and hands-on access at events like the California Green Building Conference

  • Lessons learned content from peers who have been through the reporting cycle

The information sharing and collaboration among signatories on issues affecting workers and the environment are having a positive impact across the construction industry.
— Laura Soma, Sustainability Manager, GLY Construction

That's not marketing language. That's what happens when a framework is built by people who share the same challenges. Signatories aren't just reporting into a system. They're shaping what the standards become and sharing hard-won knowledge with the firms next to them.

“Clayco is proud to be a pilot signatory of the Contractor’s Commitment. It provides the essential tools to standardize environmental tracking and improve industry benchmarking. We encourage others to join us in this vital step toward greater accountability.”
— Eden Axelrad, Director, Climate Change and Decarbonization, Clayco

“At Sellen Construction, we are proud to support the Contractor’s Commitment. Its industry-specific metrics align with our values and have strengthened our roadmap for environmental accountability. We look forward to continuing this journey and encourage others to join us.”
— Angi Rivera, Director of Sustainability, Sellen Construction

Where We’ll Be

Here's where to find us and representative Signatories in 2026:

MAY 28, 2026
California Green Building Conference
Berkeley, CA

JULY 2026
SCL/SDL Summit
Colorado

OCTOBER 2026
Greenbuild NYC v3.0 official rollout