Mersy Maradiaga graduated as a civil engineer and has been working with Turner Construction for the past 8 years. She is the Sustainability Manager for the Southwest region. Her role consists of implementing Turner’s sustainability requirements at the jobsite i.e. ensuring jobsites are recycling 80% of the waste generated and monthly tracking of fuel, water and electricity usage. Turner has been #1 Green Contractor for the past 17 years and as a continuous effort towards sustainability, Turner requires all projects over 20M to track waste, fuel usage and utilities. Mersy is currently pushing for innovative ways to reduce the company’s carbon footprint by collaborating with trade partners on reducing product waste and the embodied carbon of materials. In the past, Mersy worked with Turner’s headquarters sustainability team where she analyzed the carbon impact of waste based on the amount of construction debris that is generated at Turner using their waste data history. A fun fact about Mersy is that she was the first Turner employee to achieve the USGBC TRUE Zero Waste accreditation.