Robins & Morton Opens Miami Office to Enhance South Florida Services

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MIAMI, Fla. — Robins & Morton recently opened a new Miami, Florida office.  Robins & Morton has worked in South Florida for more than 15 years and has more than $500 million in South Florida healthcare construction underway. Some notable South Florida projects include the Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health South Florida, Miami Children's Hospital, Doctors Hospital, West Kendall Baptist Hospital, Jackson South Community Hospital, South Miami Hospital and Mount Sinai Medical Center. “The opening of Robins & Morton's new Miami office is an important step in further establishing our South Florida presence,” Robins & Morton Florida division manager … Read more

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AEM Releases New Underground Utility Awareness Video

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MILWAUKEE, Wis. — “Everyone has a part to play” to help ensure underground utility safety and damage prevention. That's the message of a new video and related online and print resources from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. “Contractors, manufacturers and dealers all play a critical role in keeping our communities safe when it comes to underground utility awareness,” said William “Bernie” Bernhard, AEM technical and safety services manager. “AEM is committed to making sure all industry stakeholders are aligned and work together; communication and cooperation are essential.” The new AEM video and resource materials, which spotlight the roles of key … Read more

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CMD's June Starts Treaded Water

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CMD Group recently announced that June's $30.3 billion of construction starts, excluding residential work, was almost unchanged versus May, -1.0 percent. Starts treaded water in the latest month, which is unusual given CMD's long-term May-to-June gain, due to seasonality, of 4.5 percent. June's month-to-month inertia was a pause after May's extraordinary 37.3 percent leap. May included a couple of mega-sized project groundbreakings, the likes of which weren"t repeated in June. Year-to-date starts in 2015 have also been -1.0 percent relative to the same January-to-June period of last year. Compared with its counterpart month last year, standalone June in 2015 was … Read more

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Dodge Momentum Index Declines in June

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NEW YORK, N.Y. — The Dodge Momentum Index fell to 118.3 (2000=100) in June, down 1.3 percent from 119.9 in May, according to Dodge Data & Analytics. The 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. With the June decline, the index continued its lackluster performance thus far in 2015, and is up just 2.2 percent when compared to June 2014. Of the two major building sectors covered by the index, commercial building has recently shown … Read more

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Sundt Among Team to Win Design-Build Award for San Diego College Building Project

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SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Sundt Construction, Inc. led the design-build team that recently received the Distinction Award from the Design-Build Institute of America Western Pacific Region for its work on the San Diego City College Math and Social Sciences Building and Parking Structure in San Diego, California. The project team included Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects earned the recognition during the 2015 DBIA WPR Annual Design-Build Awards Competition Dinner. Of the 11 project teams to win 2015 DBIA WPR awards, Sundt was the only contractor to have two winning projects. Sundt also won the Award of Merit for its work on … Read more

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