Nadi Group plans to build 200-home community in Huntsville, Ont.

There’s a phrase he heard a long time ago that stuck with leading urban designer Emeka Nnadi and it goes something like this: The most sustainable building you will ever find is the one you didn’t need to build.

Now the company he founded in 2010 – Nadi Group, an architecture, landscape architecture and urban design consultancy with offices in Toronto, Winnipeg and Detroit – is on a mission to make good on that principle.

How? By changing the focus of homebuilding from constructing four walls and a roof to creating resilient communities designed to meet and evolve with homeowners’ needs

To do that, the firm is eliminating the conventional two-step development process where a land developer buys a parcel of land, puts in i

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