Wendy Merz is a Principal Consultant with more than 23 years of environmental consulting experience. In her current role, she coordinates Trinity’s service offerings and works with our local Environmental Consulting offices on projects related to environmental sustainability. She is also experienced in environmental regulatory compliance strategy development and air quality permitting across multiple industry sectors, which she leverages to support industrial clients in addressing today’s challenges associated with the transition to a low-carbon economy. This support includes corporate GHG inventories (Scope 1, 2, and 3), product life cycle assessments (LCAs) and environmental product declarations (EPDs), GHG reduction strategies, and target-setting.
She also supports clients with various corporate environmental sustainability initiatives, including program development, environmental KPI identification, and tracking. She is an experienced project manager of large projects with geographically diverse team members and client sites and is an experienced presenter and instructor on sustainability topics and environmental regulatory requirements.
Ms. Merz has supported clients in variety of industries including natural gas production, transmission and distribution, power generation, petroleum refining, cement manufacturing, lime manufacturing, steel manufacturing, secondary aluminum manufacturing, synthetic fiber manufacturing, food processing, asphalt manufacturing, and transportation services. She also has extensive experience in the regulatory requirements for stationary engines enrolled in Demand Response Programs.
Ms. Merz graduated from Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and from University of Cincinnati with a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering. Prior to her consulting career, Ms. Merz worked in the oil industry for six years and taught high school chemistry for five years. Ms. Merz opened Trinity’s Philadelphia Office in 2012 and managed the office for seven years.
