The Housing Research Institute (HRI) consolidates all the residential construction research within the Del E Webb School of Construction.  The focus is to build residential homes of higher quality construction: more energy efficient, durable, sustainable, and safer, while still being affordable. 

With this in mind, Arizona State University entered into a partnership with PATH (a White House initiative administered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which is aimed at bringing new technologies to the homebuilding industry) and several major Arizona homebuilders, trade contractors, and manufacturers.  The mission of the Arizona Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (AzPATH) is to promote research and development in the Arizona homebuilding industry and provide leadership in the southwest area housing industry through research, learning, and development of innovative practices for the housing industry.  AzPATH accomplishes this through in-depth investigation of industry practices, development of relevant performance measurement criteria, identification of problem areas, and implementation of solutions.