Dr. Marzieh Riahinezhad, PEng, PMP is a Research Officer at NRC’s Construction Research Centre and Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa. She leads the Building Durability and Resiliency team, focusing on developing sustainable and resilient building envelope materials, evaluating their performance and durability, and predicting their service life. She also leads the Resilient Residential Retrofit theme under NRC’s Climate Resilient Built Environment Initiative, which aims to enhance climate resilience in existing residential buildings through retrofitting. Additionally, she co-leads the Climate Change Adaptation Code R&D Theme for the National Building Code of Canada and CIB W080 on service life prediction methods.