The group will provide advice and development-management services to clients wishing to deliver community housing projects.

The government said it has also provided 170,000 rapid tests to 30 industry sites like Ontario Power Generation, construction firm Ellis Don and manufacturer Bombardier Aviation. The weekly demand for tests in essential workplaces is anticipated to be 300,000.

P3 teams led by EllisDon, Pomerleau and Amico Design Build Inc. have been invited to respond to a formal request for proposals process for the construction of the new Grandview Children’s Treatment Centre.

The news comes as several sites in the GTA are being stricken by COVID-19. The Eglinton LRT project saw 28 COVID cases on eight sites in January, while The Well and the Michael Garron hospital sites—both run by Crosslinx consortium member EllisDon—saw their own post-holiday outbreaks.

The Mississauga−based company says it had a net loss of $9 million in the three months that ended Dec. 31, compared with a loss of $7 million in the same period in 2019.