List of low-energy building techniques
- List of low-energy building techniques
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.
Improvements to building envelope
* Barra system
* Brise soleil
* Cool roof and Green roof
* Daylighting
* Earth sheltering
* Fluorescent lighting and Compact fluorescent lamp
* Passive solar building design
* Passive solar and Passive cooling
* Superinsulation
* Trombe wall
* Windcatcher
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
* Renewable heat
* Seasonal thermal storage
* Solar air conditioning
* Solar hot water
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