Field instrumentation
Thermal Comfort Field Studies
Long-duration field instrumentation in occupied buildings — clothing, behaviour and breeze recorded where people actually live and work, to ground comfort standards in lived evidence.
R&D
Applied research, carried into practice.
The R&D stream is where URN measures, tests and publishes. We instrument occupied buildings rather than laboratory mock-ups; we test earthen materials against real loads and real budgets; we assemble climate data that practitioners and municipalities can hold in common. Findings are released openly, so the field can argue with them.
Projects · 03
Materials research
Earthen Materials Lab
A working library of stabilised earth: mixes, blocks and vaults tested for strength, embodied carbon and craft continuity — a material past examined as a material future.
Open dataset
Climate Data Commons
An open, shared dataset joining weather stations, building logs and street surveys — climate evidence assembled as a commons, so no single office owns the question.