The current consumer society needs to maintain their standard of living comfort and high-energy consumption. Currently, the challenge is based on finding sustainable development, maintaining the level of activity, transformation and progress, but adjusted to the current needs and avoiding energy waste . Therefore, the following article is a review of general topics about the energy crisis and the influence this has had on the processes of development companies, dependence has been taken of this resource; therefore, renewable energy is an alternative solution in response to many problems that have faced the cities. Thanks to this, has been using an insatiable quest for sustainable development in the world and therefore generate less environmental impacts and degradation of this. According to the above, the construction sector is conditioned or conform to the problem of energy crisis, so have been created efficient and friendly buildings, where mechanisms are implemented to reduce energy consumption and at the same time adapt to the environment natural, not to affect the environment.