{"id":2030,"date":"2025-09-11T14:46:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:31:10","slug":"drew-furry-takes-on-new-role-as-director-of-strategic-facility-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/2025\/09\/11\/drew-furry-takes-on-new-role-as-director-of-strategic-facility-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Furry takes on new role as director of Strategic Facility Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"section \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n                \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am pleased to announced that Drew Furry has been named director of Strategic Facility Initiatives. In this newly established role, Drew provides leadership and guidance for complex, high-impact facility and space initiatives. He is responsible for overseeing university priorities in research space optimization, facility management and strategic planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While taking on this new role, Drew continues to oversee the Daniels School of Business new building project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drew previously served as project executive with Capital Asset Management responsible for project management of several capital projects. Some of his more recent projects include Ross-Ade Stadium renovations, Mackey Arena locker room upgrades, construction of the Pete Dye Clubhouse and Union Club Hotel renovations. His impact has involved transformative projects totaling more than $600 million for Athletics, Student Life, College of Engineering, College of Science and other campus partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drew earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in civil engineering and spent his early career working for a large construction management firm in Indianapolis. He earned a master\u2019s degree in business administration from Purdue Global.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drew now reports to me and will continue working with Capital Asset Management as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please take a moment to congratulate Drew on his new role!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jake Denecke<br>Senior Director of Strategic Facility Initiatives<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/intranet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}