{"id":4314,"date":"2013-07-15T20:18:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbcnet.org\/member_news\/forrester-renovates-national-museum-of-natural-history\/"},"modified":"2013-07-15T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T20:18:20","slug":"forrester-renovates-national-museum-of-natural-history","status":"publish","type":"member_news","link":"https:\/\/www.wbcnet.org\/member_news\/forrester-renovates-national-museum-of-natural-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrester Renovates National Museum of Natural History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tRockville, MD &#8211; <span style='color: rgb(0, 128, 0);'><strong>Forrester Construction Company<\/strong><\/span> is pleased to announce the completion of an $18M renovation of the <strong><a href='http:\/\/www.forresterconstruction.com\/portfolio\/266'>Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History<\/a><\/strong>. For this project Forrester repurposed the museum&#39;s ground floor to accommodate its education, library, lab and facilities spaces.<\/p>\n<p>\tNumerous structural and infrastructure modifications were made while the museum remained occupied and operational. Architectural features consisted of the restoration of existing plaster finishes and the replication and replacement of historic monumental windows.<\/p>\n<p>\tThis complex renovation project has received numerous Washington Building Congress Craftsmanship Awards for precision and attention to detail.<\/p>\n<p style='text-align: center;'>\t<span style='color: rgb(105, 105, 105);'>###<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockville, MD &#8211; Forrester Construction Company is pleased to announce the completion of an $18M renovation of the Smithsonian National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4315,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4314","member_news","type-member_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Forrester Renovates National Museum of Natural History - Washington Building Congress<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbcnet.org\/member_news\/forrester-renovates-national-museum-of-natural-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Forrester Renovates National Museum of Natural History - Washington Building Congress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rockville, MD &#8211; 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