Terri Boguski

Terrie Boguski (P.E, emeritus) is a chemical and environmental engineer with many years of experience conducting life cycle assessments (LCAs) for a variety of industrial clients. She has conducted LCAs for agricultural, paper, plastic, and metal products and many types of packaging over the span of her career. MS. Boguski has collected data from major producers of various types of products and packaging and used those data to create LCA datasets for modeling LCA systems. Ms. Boguski is familiar with SimaPro, GaBi and OpenLCA software for modeling LCA systems. Currently, Ms. Boguski focuses on critical reviews of LCAs, as well as verification of PCRs and EPDs. She has been a contracted reviewer for NSF and ASTM. She is an approved independent verifier for the International EPD System. Ms. Boguski is a Technical Advisory Board member for the Program Operator, Sustainable Minds. In the past three years, Ms. Boguski has completed more than 50 LCA reviews, more than 20 EPD verifications and 4 PCR reviews.

Ms. Boguski is a member of the ACLCA PCR Committee. She led the development and presentation of the April 7, 2020 ACLCA webinar: EPD 101: Everything You Need to Know about Environmental Product Declarations. She and Aidan Ganzert (Interface) presented this webinar in 2021 and 2022 to ACLCA LCA Institute audiences. In July 2020, Ms. Boguski conducted the ACLCA online workshop: Making the Most of Your LCA’s Critical Review – A Business Perspective. At the 2022 and 2023 ACLCA conferences, Ms. Boguski led a pre-conference workshop titled, “LCA Critical Review – Best Practices”. Ms. Boguski presented an overview of ISO 14067 (carbon footprint of products) at the September 2021 and 2022 ACLCA conferences. Ms. Boguski was on the Steering Committee for the 2022 ACLCA PCR Guidance – Process and Methods Toolkit available at https://aclca.org/pcr/. She is one of the authors of the journal article, “At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting” published in the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2023).