Coming Soon: An Enhanced HIRI Website

We’re excit­ed to share that an enhanced HIRI web­site is launch­ing soon, and is slat­ed for mid-Jan­u­ary. The enhance­ments you’ll see rolled out are craft­ed with you at the cen­ter of every deci­sion. As we approach the launch date, we want to give you a first look at what’s com­ing and what we’re get­ting most excit­ed about it.

Why We’re Refreshing the HIRI Website

We know how crit­i­cal it is that you, HIRI mem­bers, have easy access to time­ly, trust­ed, and acces­si­ble insights to present to lead­er­ship and guide your strate­gic plan­ning, go-to-mar­ket plans, prod­uct roadmaps, and over­all mar­ket understanding.

Our pri­ma­ry goal in this refresh is straight­for­ward: Make it eas­i­er, faster, and more intu­itive for you to access the research you val­ue most.

This refresh isn’t just a visu­al update; it’s a mean­ing­ful upgrade to how you and your teams inter­act with the ben­e­fits of your mem­ber­ship.

Introducing: Your New Account Settings

One of the biggest addi­tions is build­ing out the func­tion­al­i­ty in your Account Set­tings fea­ture to give you more con­trol and access.

From the new Account Settings, you will be able to:

• Eas­i­ly update your email com­mu­ni­ca­tion preferences
• Edit your account information
• Sub­mit and man­age sup­port requests
• Quick­ly share ideas and feed­back with HIRI leadership
• And specif­i­cal­ly for Mem­ber Rep­re­sen­ta­tives: Eas­i­ly man­age your organization’s users, includ­ing updat­ing access or adding new mem­bers directly

What’s most excit­ing about this? You now have direct access to make sim­ple updates to your account, ask ques­tions, and add users direct­ly from your mem­ber portal. 

Enhanced Access to Research

Access to cur­rent home improve­ment indus­try research is at the heart of your HIRI mem­ber­ship, and the new web­site is focused on mak­ing it eas­i­er to get access to exact­ly what you’re look­ing for.

Instant Access to Current Reports

The research sec­tion of the web­site is struc­tured to help you:

1. Fil­ter or search for the research you’re look­ing for
2. Quick­ly down­load the most recent PowerPoint
3. Dive deep­er by access­ing sup­port­ing data files and tabulations
4. Explore reports and data from past waves with just a few clicks

Instant Access to Historical Reports

As HIRI con­tin­ues pro­vid­ing research month after month, quar­ter after quar­ter, and year after year, you’ll begin to see his­tor­i­cal report remain accessible. 

This means you will no longer have to send an email to HIRI staff to request pri­or waves of data if you’re look­ing to do deep­er analy­sis on any­thing that isn’t in the cur­rent report. Instead, you can access it direct­ly straight from the website.

Consolidated Access to Multi-Category Reports

Anoth­er enhance­ment we’ve made per­tains to some of our larg­er stud­ies that are prod­uct and project spe­cif­ic. Pre­vi­ous­ly, nav­i­gat­ing to get the files for the Prod­uct Deci­sion Study (PDS) and the Prod­uct Pur­chase Track­ing Study (PPTS) mate­ri­als meant hop­ping in and out of mul­ti­ple pages. 

(Not ide­al!) And not anymore.

In the new web­site expe­ri­ence, all of the report and data files for the PDS and PPTS study are acces­si­ble from a sin­gle page, allow­ing you to quick­ly down­load all of the files, or sim­ply down­load the hand­ful that you care most about.

Resources Consolidated

In the pri­or web­site, resources, includ­ing blogs, info­graph­ics, and fast facts, weren’t orga­nized togeth­er, so you had to look in mul­ti­ple places. Now, we’ve stream­lined how you access those resources:

• All oth­er resources (blogs, info­graph­ics, fast facts) are now acces­si­ble inside one uni­fied list­ing page
• Then fil­ter­ing options make it easy to nar­row down what you’re look­ing through

Webinars = Events

Webi­na­rs will live under a clear, ded­i­cat­ed ​“Events” section. 

What Hasn’t Changed (Much)

While the design and lay­out are get­ting a major refresh, our intent has been to keep the core func­tion­al­i­ty you rely on familiar.

Research List­ings and Fil­ter­ing Set­tings will still work sim­i­lar­ly, and are sim­ply eas­i­er to find and use with their sta­t­ic place­ment on the left hand side.

Research Fact Facts are now placed high­er on the asso­ci­at­ed research page for quick­er scanning. 

Our goal was to enhance, not over­haul, the way you browse research.

See Ways to Get Involved with HIRI

The new site also makes it eas­i­er to learn about HIRI’s lead­er­ship and Board of Direc­tors, with clear­er pro­files and insight into who’s guid­ing the orga­ni­za­tion. While this infor­ma­tion has always been pro­vid­ed, it has­n’t always been easy to get to. 

Because HIRI is mem­ber-dri­ven, it’s impor­tant that you know ways you can get involved, whether by serv­ing on the Board, join­ing a steer­ing com­mit­tee, or con­tribut­ing to key research ini­tia­tives; this infor­ma­tion is now eas­i­er to find on one page. 

Need Help? Find Something That Isn’t Working?

The new HIRI​.org expe­ri­ence will be launch­ing mid-Jan­u­ary, 2026. 

As with any large web­site launch, there may be a few bumps at first, despite all efforts for smooth sail­ing. If you spot any­thing that looks off or isn’t func­tion­ing prop­er­ly we want to hear from you. Your input helps us make the new HIRI​.org bet­ter for every member.