HEACON Research Group (HRG) is a multidisciplinary team, of academic professionals, specialising in the conservation of historic earthen buildings, monuments, and structures. The Group’s principal commitment is toward earthen mortars and their application, within the historic built environment, as a primary and/ or secondary construction material. Predicated on this focus, the Research Group is committed to the collaborative development of better practice standards, that promote holistic and sustainable approaches, to support the international conservation of historic earthen architecture.

HEACON Research Group is actively engaged in a continuous programme of projects, designed specifically, to explore opportunities that will increase visibility and accessibility to a platform of associated resources, formed on a basis of practical scientific research. Each opportunity is developed on the fundamental premise of contributing to the specialism, with a purpose that both encourages and engages a greater breadth of exposure toward the study of historic earthen mortars and the continual evolution of an associated body of documented works.