{"id":32098,"date":"2025-08-31T21:37:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T04:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/six-southern-ontario-projects-receive-funding-to-support-housing-innovation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T21:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T04:37:49","slug":"six-southern-ontario-projects-receive-funding-to-support-housing-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/six-southern-ontario-projects-receive-funding-to-support-housing-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Six southern Ontario projects receive funding to support housing innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WINDSOR, ONT. \u2014 The Government of Canada has announced a combined investment of nearly $12 million through FedDev Ontario for six businesses and organizations that are trying to advance innovative housing solutions across southern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the recipients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>University of Windsor \u2013 <\/strong>The school is receiving an investment of $2 million to showcase new 3D printing technology through the construction of a net-zero student residence. The project includes a research component, which contains hands-on training for 60 participants, including students, construction professionals, engineers and government officials, a virtual conference and a dedicated website to promote 3D printing and automation in homebuilding.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bkcornerstone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BK Cornerstone Design Build Ltd.<\/strong><\/a> will receive $2.5 million to upgrade its facility with machinery to develop a first-of-its-kind automated wall panel manufacturing line. When used in construction, these panels will reduce energy consumption, lower construction costs and decrease build times, a release reads.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/arcticacres.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Arctic Acres<\/strong><\/a> manufactures geodome structures built to endure tough weather, including snow loads and wind speeds of over 180 km\/hour.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axeliving.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Axe Buildings<\/strong><\/a>is a modular housing company delivering fully panelized, low-carbon homes that are net-zero ready.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/dycksconstruction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dyck Exterior Installations Inc<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> manufactures custom exterior colour options for residential and commercial homes across Chatham-Kent, Windsor-Essex and London, as well as Elgin County, Kitchener-Waterloo, and the GTA, offering services such as siding, capping, fencing and exterior renovations.<\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infrastructuredevelopmentpartners.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Infrastructure Development Partners Inc.<\/strong><\/a> is aiming to transform traditional construction with advanced manufacturing techniques.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A number of these projects are funded through the\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/feddev-ontario.canada.ca\/en\/funding-southern-ontario\/regional-homebuilding-innovation-initiative-southern-ontario\" target=\"_blank\">Regional Homebuilding Innovation Initiative<\/a> to help address the way homes are built to better meet our country\u2019s demand, the release adds.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2025\/08\/six-southern-ontario-projects-receive-funding-to-support-housing-innovation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] WINDSOR, ONT. \u2014 The Government of Canada has announced a combined investment of nearly $12 million through FedDev Ontario &#8230; <a title=\"Six southern Ontario projects receive funding to support housing innovation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/six-southern-ontario-projects-receive-funding-to-support-housing-innovation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Six southern Ontario projects receive funding to support housing innovation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-32098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}