Low-energy buildings, which include zero-energy buildings, passive houses and green buildings use any of a large number of techniques to lower energy use.
The following lists some of the techniques used to achieve low-energy buildings, which excludes energy generation (microgeneration).
Improvements to building envelope[edit | edit source]
- Active daylighting
- Barra system
- Brise soleil
- Cool roof and Green roof
- Daylighting
- Double envelope house
- Earth sheltering
- Energy plus house
- Fluorescent lighting, Compact fluorescent lamp, and LED lighting
- History of passive solar building design
- House-in-a-House
- Low energy building
- Low-energy house
- Passive daylighting
- Passive house
- Passive solar building design
- Passive solar
- Solar energy
- Superinsulation
- Sustainability
- Sustainable architecture
- Trombe wall
- Windcatcher
- Zero energy building
- Zero energy design
Improvements to heating, cooling, ventilation and water heating[edit | edit source]
- Absorption refrigerator
- Annualized geothermal solar
- Compost heater
- Earth cooling tubes
- Geothermal heat pump
- Heat recovery ventilation
- Hot water heat recycling
- Passive cooling
- Renewable heat
- Seasonal thermal storage
- Solar air conditioning
- Solar hot water
Energy Rating systems[edit | edit source]
- House Energy Rating (Aust.)
- Home energy rating (USA)
- EnerGuide (Canada)
- National Home Energy Rating (UK)
- LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design