The company says the construction company it has contracted to build the plant will employ 1,600 Canadian tradespeople directly and through subcontractors.

Smart Modular Canada aims to use the funding to addressing housing gaps in First Nations communities and infrastructure needs in natural resource sectors such as mining and forestry.

The company will provide project- and program-management services for capital repair and ministry-funded projects with values of up to $20 million.

The dangers of a changing climate could add more than $4 billion per year to the cost of maintaining Ontario's public infrastructure over the rest of the century.

The call for proposals will open up as much as $300 million in funding under the Pre-construction and Project Development Stream and the Infrastructure Deployment Stream.