>In the growing Franconia area, a groundbreaking ceremony was recently held for a new full-sized hospital on the corner of Beulah Street and the Springfield-Franconia Parkway just outside Kingstowne.

When it’s completed it will be the largest capital project in the history of Montana.

But there’s a new and often overlooked piece of infrastructure that is delivering outsized returns in many locations. Australia’s unprecedented $42bn hospital building boom is generating investment ...