As a technical officer at the Construction Research Centre, my work focuses on the accelerated aging and testing of polymeric building materials for use in service life prediction studies. These days, there is a special focus on ensuring that materials used in building construction can stand up to the harsher environmental conditions of the future, as predicted by climate change models. The climate crisis is an issue of great importance to me, and I'm glad my career path has led me to work that involves acknowledging the issue, and actively finding both mitigation and adaptation-oriented solutions, in the form of preparing our built environments to withstand the consequences of climate change, as well as investigating the applications of low-carbon building materials.My experience in material characterization techniques includes: dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, optical microscopy, single-sided NMR, micro-indentation, and atomic force microscopy (AFM). I am always looking to learn more about different topics, including, but not limited to, those related to my field.