A low-energy house is any type of house that from design, technologies and building products uses less energy, from any source, than a traditional or average contemporary house. In the practice of sustainable design, sustainable architecture, low-energy building, energy-efficient landscaping low-energy houses often use active solar and passive solar building designtechniques and components to reduce their energy expenditure.
List of low-energy building techniques
The following lists some of the techniques used to achieve low-energy buildings, which excludes energy generation (micro generation).
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 building design
- Passive solar
- Solar energy
- Superinsulation
- Sustainability
- Sustainable architecture
- Trombe wall
- Windcatcher
- Zero energy building
Improvements to heating, cooling, ventilation and water heating
Absorption refrigeratorAnnualized geothermal solarEarth cooling tubesGeothermal heat pumpHeat recovery ventilationHot water heat recyclingPassive coolingRenewable heatSeasonal thermal energy storage (STES)Solar air conditioningSolar hot watersource: http://en.wikipedia.orgFor watching video, click the text below.
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