List of low-energy building techniques

Low-energy buildings, which include zero-energy buildings, passive houses and green buildings, may use any of a large number of techniques to lower energy use.

The following are some of the techniques used to achieve low-energy buildings, which excludes energy generation (microgeneration).

Improvements to building envelope

 * 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
 * Green building and wood
 * History of passive solar building design
 * Low-energy house
 * Passive daylighting
 * Passive house
 * Passive solar
 * Passive solar building design
 * Quadruple glazing
 * Solar energy
 * Superinsulation
 * Sustainable architecture
 * Sustainability
 * Trombe wall
 * Windcatcher
 * Zero energy building
 * Zero heating building

Improvements to heating, cooling, ventilation and water heating

 * Absorption refrigerator
 * Annualized geothermal solar
 * Earth cooling tubes
 * Geothermal heat pump
 * Heat recovery ventilation
 * Hot water heat recycling
 * Passive cooling
 * Renewable heat
 * Seasonal thermal energy storage (STES)
 * Solar air conditioning
 * Solar hot water

Energy rating systems

 * EnerGuide (Canada)
 * Home energy rating (US)
 * House Energy Rating (Australia)
 * LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
 * National Home Energy Rating (UK)