Located at the college’s Whitby campus, the 60,000-square-foot facility will allow DC to increase its industrial skilled trades training capacity in Whitby by 750 students.

A design-build contract arrangement sees the firm to upgrade the plant’s digesters to process biosolids from the town’s wastewater treatment operations.

This, despite the fact that the cost for the facility is estimated to have jumped by more than 50 percent – from $66 million to $101 million.

The policy choices governments make to align electricity systems with net zero will have big implications far beyond the electricity sector, say the report authors.

The last few days have seen mixed fortunes on the collective agreement front. While the plumbers and pipefitters have ratified their agreement, the province’s ICI sheet metal worker and roofers have yet to finalize their agreements, and could soon strike.