{"id":4780,"date":"2017-02-09T20:36:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbcnet.org\/member_news\/forrester-names-new-vp-of-preconstruction-estimating-purchasing\/"},"modified":"2017-02-09T20:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:36:54","slug":"forrester-names-new-vp-of-preconstruction-estimating-purchasing","status":"publish","type":"member_news","link":"https:\/\/www.wbcnet.org\/member_news\/forrester-names-new-vp-of-preconstruction-estimating-purchasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrester Names New VP of Preconstruction, Estimating &#038; Purchasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tRockville, MD &#8211;&nbsp;Effective earlier this year, <strong>Forrester Construction<\/strong> promoted <a href='http:\/\/forresterconstruction.com\/don-free-promotion\/'>Donald Free<\/a> to the role of vice president overseeing the firm&rsquo;s preconstruction services, estimating and purchasing groups. Don has more than 30 years of construction industry experience and has managed dozens <img alt='' src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Forrester_Don-Free.jpg' style='width: 100px; height: 100px; float: right;' \/>of successful projects during his eleven year career with Forrester. Most recently, he served as a project executive overseeing all aspects of various commercial, education and public sector projects including important work at <a href='http:\/\/forresterconstruction.com\/portfolio\/arlington-national-cemetery-multiple-projects\/'>Arlington National Cemetery<\/a> and <a href='http:\/\/forresterconstruction.com\/pgcc_lanham_hall_groundbreaking\/'>Prince George&rsquo;s Community College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\tForrester&rsquo;s President Steve Houff said of the promotion, &ldquo;Don Free has a long record of excellent service to Forrester. His extensive experience in both construction operations and procurement made this role a natural fit.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\tNews of the promotion has been featured in several publications, including The Washington Post and The Washington Business Journal. Learn more about Don and find out how to get in touch by reading the full announcement on Forrester&#39;s <a href='http:\/\/forresterconstruction.com\/executive-leadership-transition\/'>website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style='text-align: center;'>\t# # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockville, MD &#8211;&nbsp;Effective earlier this year, Forrester Construction promoted Donald Free to the role of vice president overseeing the firm&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4781,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","member_news","type-member_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Forrester Names New VP of Preconstruction, Estimating &amp; Purchasing - 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-names-new-vp-of-preconstruction-estimating-purchasing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Forrester Names New VP of Preconstruction, Estimating &amp; 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