The 11 projects include retrofit work on municipal buildings, and construction of active transportation infrastructure and disaster mitigation infrastructure.

One person was confirmed killed almost immediately, but it would take several more hours before rescuers were able to determine the person trapped in the rubble was also dead.

The province announced the funding through its Facilities Renewal Program, and the university will use the money to address its deferred-maintenance backlog.

The incident on Friday killed two people and injured five others, city officials said. One person killed had earlier been taken from the scene but the other remained trapped.

One person was dead and another remained trapped under rubble hours after a four−storey wall collapsed at a construction site in London, Ont., officials announced Friday, as firefighters continued digging through the debris.