Bob the Builder goes green

Bob the Builder has gone green! Parents of small children watching Bob the Builder episodes last week may have been bemused to see Bob installing an aerial on a yurt, a window in a dome and attending to a problem at the sunflower oil processing plant.

Further investigations have revealed that Bob's colleague Wendy is now living in a caravan fitted with solar panels and the vehicles are housed in an earth sheltered garage facility, similar to the award winning homes at the Hockerton Housing Project in Nottingham.

It seems that while Bob was building an extension for Mr Adams, a local architect in Bobsville, he heard Adams talking about a competition, which he had entered, to develop Sunflower Valley, a place that Bob used to visit as a child. Fearing Adam's plan will turn Sunflower Valley into a crowded environmentally unfriendly development that will devastate the countryside; Bob entered the competition himself with a design for a green town intended to complement the local environment.

Bob's vision impressed the judges so much that he won the competition.. So Bob, Wendy and Bob's trusted team of vehicles began working together to build an environmentally friendly town using locally sourced naturally occurring materials, designing the buildings to blend harmoniously with the surrounding countryside.

This project will be a huge opportunity for Bob bringing up new problems and new challenges. For the first time ever Bob's building work will be focussed towards a single goal, and the series follows the building of the eco town from the placing of the first brick to the last tile until the green vision is complete.

It seems to have been a winning formula with viewers as well as the judging panel - CBBC, who are running the series, say that ratings have increased 100% since last year.

(Story orginated from Green Building Press - http://www.newbuilder.co.uk/ )