Abstract:Currently,the problems of energy shortage, environment pollution and global warming have become increasingly severe, and hence the low-carbon technology innovations of construction industry are extremely urgent.Targeting low-carbon technologies in construction industry , this study employs CiteSpace to analyze the related patents included in Derwent Innovations Index (DII), shows the research temporal and spatial distributions, and identifies hot spots and front edges through the frequency detection method. The scientometric map indicates that the low-carbon technologies of building envelope structure occupy the highest attention, whereas the low-carbon technologies of building materials are the most promising front edges in the future. Considering the current state of low-carbon technology innovations in China’s construction industry, we put forward policy enlightenments from the perspective of mechanism construction, namely improving the government guiding mechanism for the development of low-carbon technologies, establishing carbon tax and trading mechanism, strengthening public participation and supervisory mechanism, and constructing international exchange and cooperation mechanism.