Gilbane Building Company Installs First-of-its-Kind in the Region Proton Accelerator

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Gilbane Building Company is building the Proton Therapy center at Baptist Health South Florida for the Miami Cancer Institute in Miami, Florida. Being introduced as ‘Pete’, a 220 ton breakthrough in cancer care, the equipment traveled nearly 4,700 miles on its transatlantic journey from Belgium. The highly anticipated Proteus PLUS three-gantry room configuration includes next generation pencil beam scanning capability, is the only one of its kind in the region. The 70,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility, which includes support spaces for treatment and research, is only one of a handful of proton therapy centers in the country and the first in South … Read more

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Dodge Momentum Index Moves Higher in May

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NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Dodge Momentum Index rose 2.4 percent in May to 119.4 from its revised April reading of 116.6 (2000=100). The momentum index is a monthly measure of the first (or initial) report for nonresidential building projects in planning, which have been shown to lead construction spending for nonresidential buildings by a full year. The increase for the index in May was due to a 6.5 percent gain for projects entering planning in the commercial sector, which more than offset a 3.4 percent decline for such projects in the institutional sector. May’s increase places the overall index … Read more

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