The firms will work in joint venture to renew government research facilities across the country. Their contract could be worth as much as $100 million over five years.

The move is part of a broader strategy by the company to divest itself of what it calls higher-risk, lower-margin construction services. The firm is currently involved in several major Canadian infrastructure projects, including Toronto’s four priority transit works.

A November 2018 incident saw two workers suffer serious injuries from falling slag. Gerdau Ameristeel Incorporation pled guilty to failing to provide overhead protection to workers where there may be risks of falling material.

The AMPED Sports Lab and Ice Complex in east-end Ottawa becomes the first complex of its kind to be certified as a zero-carbon building.

Two small Ontario communities are the latest recipients of more than $2.5 million in combined infrastructure funding from the federal and provincial governments.