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List of low energy building techniques

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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.

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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
  • History of passive solar building design
  • Low-energy house
  • Passive daylighting
  • Passive house
  • Passive solar
  • Passive solar building design
  • Solar energy
  • Superinsulation
  • Sustainable architecture
  • Sustainability
  • Trombe wall
  • Windcatcher
  • Zero energy 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)
  • References

    List of low-energy building techniques Wikipedia


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