In framework of the strategic course of Russia's modern development for energy efficiency, resource saving and environmental safety as the basis for sustainable development of our country, issues related to environmental housebuilding or "green building" are of particular relevance and scientific and practical importance. In this article, the authors, taking into account generalization and analysis of the material accumulated on this subject, determine the basic principles (criteria) of ecological housing construction, an attempt is made to formulate a normative and methodological justification for each of them. The practical novelty of this work is that the presented principles of ecological housing construction are updated on the example of a specific territory and construction object. They are implemented in the business project for the construction of an autonomous energy-efficient complex "ECODOM" with innovative treatment facilities and resourcesaving operation technologies in one of the most ecologically clean areas of the Moscow region. The main objective of this project is, by creating the system "House, Nature, Man - a single whole", to move to a fundamentally new level of environmental and economic development of architectural and construction thought, considering the eco-house as a natural-anthropogenic ecosystem with a positive ecological resource, providing an autonomous existence, energy efficiency, Resource saving and environmental safety as the main principles of sustainable development. The business project provides all urban planning, technical, sanitary and environmental requirements for the selection of a land plot for individual housing construction, its layout, construction technologies, building materials, structures and products, residential buildings and premises, nature conservation facilities, resource-saving activities And the processing of waste products of the eco house into useful secondary products used in the future in the process of managing and operating the system.