A Nova Scotia engineer is aiming to take energy-efficient housing mainstream.
Natalie Leonard is the founder of Passive Design Solutions, which sells ready-made building plans for energy-efficient houses.
The company originally specialized in custom, one-off projects. But with $100,000 of federal funding, Leonard is looking to scale the business and sees standardized designs as a way to expand outside of Nova Scotia.
“It’s a product rather than a service, so it doesn’t matter so much where we are,” she said during an interview. “We don’t have to meet with clients so much, because the