CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 27 -- The University of Virginia issued the following news release:
When the University of Virginia volleyball team returned to Memorial Gymnasium earlier this month to play Duke University, the match served as a soft opening for the renovated 102-year-old building.
Do the lights work? Do the doors open? These were the kinds of minute details UVA senior project manager Amy Mays pored over with her team.
Check and check.
"There were engineers reviewing what percentage of exhaust air you have in spaces," Mays said. "And if we didn't get all of that right, we weren't going to be able to do that for volleyball. So, it definitely gave us kind of a dress rehearsal for when we're really done and when we do the full o...