The agreement eliminates risk for work delays and disruptions caused by strikes or lockouts during construction of the hospital’s new 2.5-million square-foot campus.

The expanded program is now open to as many as 1,000 out-of-status workers in the GTA construction industry.

Tunnel boring machine Diggy Scardust was deployed on January 18, and will dig nearly seven kilometres of the 7.8-kilometre tunnel.

At 220,000 square feet, the building at 945 Princess Street becomes one of the largest projects in Canada to receive IREE certification.

The initiative will provide construction safety vests to women and gender-nonconforming persons whose frame and body type are not best served by traditional vest offerings.