A growing number of buildings are being completed without gas supply. Those I have visited are the advance guard, with engineers and architects who have read the writing on the wall for fossil fuel. They have switched to the electricity grid and its good proportion of renewable energy. The German government recently announced draft legislation to ban gas or oil heating in all new and refurbished buildings by 2024, according to Bloomberg. And in 2019 the UK government had its own stab at a similar announcement. 'We will introduce a Future Homes Standard,' said Philip Hammond, then chancellor of the exchequer, 'mandating the end of fossil fuel heating systems in all new houses from 2025.' It is not yet in regulations. You may remember the consultation for the Future Homes Standard and particularly its foundation. Part L of the Building Regulations, two years ago - many, many of you responded. We still await the standard and revised regulations, anticipated later this spring.
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