The money will allow the company to adopt a new panel finishing line that will increase productivity by 50 percent. The company will also use the funding to create seven new full-time jobs.

The crossing is the oldest in the National Capital Region, and will see extensive repair work at a cost of just shy of $25 million.

Work on a 20-kilometre stretch of the highway will be performed by a contracting partnership that involves Garden River First Nation, Shwe Miikaan Corporation and Miller Paving Limited.

The national housing agency has contributed $14 million to a project that will build more than 50 affordable housing units in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood.

A new report from the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario calls attention to the poor state of repair of underground municipal water pipes, and suggests tactics to repair wasteful assets.