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Chris Huhne, the secretary of state for energy and climate change, has indicated that he would like to see all new homes in the UK meet the German low energy Passivhaus standard.

Speaking at the the inaugural UK Passivhaus Conference held in London, Huhne described the energy and comfort standard as 鈥渁 watershed moment in our relationship with the built environment鈥� and said he 鈥渨ould like to see every new home in the UK reach the standard.鈥�

He also added that: 鈥淲e need a new paradigm in housing. Where value is measured in the running costs to 2050 and beyond鈥�.

Huhne is not the only one proposing wider uptake of the standard. Jonathon Porritt, the founding director of Forum for the Future, has called on the UK construction industry to urgently embrace the Passivhaus standard to meet the government鈥檚 2016 zero-carbon target.

Speaking in the foreword to Green 好色先生TV Store鈥檚 new technical film 鈥橮assivhaus low energy building in the UK鈥� Porritt stressed the urgency with which the construction industry needs to adopt low energy construction.

鈥淚 think people in the UK are just waking up to how far behind we are on really energy efficient housing, in comparison with other European countries,鈥� said Porritt.

The coalition government has confirmed the zero carbon housing target for 2016. 鈥淲e鈥檙e going to have to be doing a huge amount to catch up. We鈥檙e going to have to see an unprecedented wave of innovation around construction techniques and design. For me it鈥檚 really important that what鈥檚 been going on elsewhere particularly in Germany with Passivhaus is now brought in as part of that innovation cycle in the UK,鈥� says Porritt.

好色先生TV followed the progress of the Green 好色先生TV Store鈥檚 first Passivhaus dwelling in a fortnightly diary. The film is freely available to view at Green 好色先生TV Store鈥檚 website www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk.