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Washington Post
2 days ago
- Sport
- Washington Post
Undefeated Loudoun County rolls on to Virginia girls' soccer semifinal
After losing just five players to graduation and adding a number of key pieces, Loudoun County girls' soccer coach Chelsea O'Bruba told her team before the season that she thought it could be special. Fast forward three months to June and it's clear to see why. The Captains haven't lost any of the 21 games they've played this season and won district and region titles. On Tuesday, they hosted a state quarterfinal for the first time since 2019. Facing Blacksburg, No. 6 Loudoun County rolled to a dominant 5-2 win and advanced to the Virginia Class 4 state semifinals.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Skanska signs supplemental contract for new engineering facility in Virginia, USA, for USD 240M, about SEK 2.5 billion
STOCKHOLM, June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Skanska has signed a supplemental contract with Virginia Tech to construct a new College of Engineering building. The supplemental contract is worth USD 240M, about SEK 2.5 billion, which will be included in the US order bookings for the second quarter of 2025. The project began with the demolition of Virginia Tech's 15,400 square meter Randolph Hall. Construction now continues with the renovation of a portion of the existing Hancock Hall to tie into the new construction of one of the largest buildings on the Blacksburg campus; the forthcoming five-story, approximately 28,500 square meter Mitchell Hall engineering building. The new building will house five departments: aerospace and ocean engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, and engineering education. The project also includes building around one of the largest university-owned wind tunnels in the country, and creating high-performing classrooms, instructional laboratories, research laboratories and collaboration spaces. Construction began spring 2024 with the demolition of Randolph Hall. The project has a target completion of fall 2028. For further information please contact:Ashley Jeffery, Communications Director, Skanska USA, +1 813 459 3682Andreas Joons, Press Officer, Skanska Group, tel +46 (0)10 449 04 94Direct line for media, tel +46 (0)10 448 88 99 This and previous releases can also be found at This information was brought to you by Cision The following files are available for download: 20250610 US supplemental contract engineering facility Image Virginia Tech Mitchell Hall View original content: SOURCE Skanska Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Skanska signs supplemental contract for new engineering facility in Virginia, USA, for USD 240M, about SEK 2.5 billion
STOCKHOLM, June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Skanska has signed a supplemental contract with Virginia Tech to construct a new College of Engineering building. The supplemental contract is worth USD 240M, about SEK 2.5 billion, which will be included in the US order bookings for the second quarter of 2025. The project began with the demolition of Virginia Tech's 15,400 square meter Randolph Hall. Construction now continues with the renovation of a portion of the existing Hancock Hall to tie into the new construction of one of the largest buildings on the Blacksburg campus; the forthcoming five-story, approximately 28,500 square meter Mitchell Hall engineering building. The new building will house five departments: aerospace and ocean engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, and engineering education. The project also includes building around one of the largest university-owned wind tunnels in the country, and creating high-performing classrooms, instructional laboratories, research laboratories and collaboration spaces. Construction began spring 2024 with the demolition of Randolph Hall. The project has a target completion of fall 2028. For further information please contact:Ashley Jeffery, Communications Director, Skanska USA, +1 813 459 3682Andreas Joons, Press Officer, Skanska Group, tel +46 (0)10 449 04 94Direct line for media, tel +46 (0)10 448 88 99 This and previous releases can also be found at This information was brought to you by Cision The following files are available for download: 20250610 US supplemental contract engineering facility Image Virginia Tech Mitchell Hall View original content: SOURCE Skanska Sign in to access your portfolio
Daily Mail
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Metallica concert rocks so hard that the legendary metal band triggers an EARTHQUAKE
Their lightning-quick riffs helped helped lay the foundation for thrash metal and made them one of the most successful bands of all time. And now the members of Metallica can boast that those riffs also helped trigger shaking similar to an earthquake. The band — which had a pivotal role on the latest season of Stranger Things — managed to shake the Earth's foundation thanks to the jumping of fans in the audience at its concert at Virginia Tech on Wednesday, May 7, according to ABC 13 News. The show, which was held at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia, as part of Metallica's M72 World Tour, reportedly created enough shaking from the jazzed-up fans that it registered on a seismograph a mile away at the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory. According to Virginia Tech Geophysics professor Dr. Martin Chapman, the band managed to trigger vibrations similar to a minor earthquake after it played the introduction to its 1991 single Enter Sandman. He said the seismograph readings were detailed enough to allow the scientist to pinpoint two different times when the crowd appeared to trigger an earthquake, with the first being early in the concert, around when the crossover hit was teased. But the group forced fans to wait until the encore to finally hear the lead Black Album cut, and the second burst of vibrations appeared to line up with that moment at the end of the concert. The Metallica fans must have been doing plenty of jumping and stomping and dancing, as Chapman said the readings for the concert were 'probably four to five times bigger than what we see typically for a football game.' According to Chapman, the strength of the vibrations is dependent on how many people are in the stadium for any particular event, and Wednesday's show appears to have the necessary attendance to create a minor earthquake with more than 65,000 fans turning out to see Metallica shred. 'What we recorded last night is a lot bigger than what we see at a football game, so Metallica really got the crowd rocking there,' Chapman told the station. Although the shaking observed by the lab had similarities with a naturally occurring earthquake, Chapman clarified that it was technically distinct. He said an earthquake has similar 'amplitude as the crowd noise from Enter Sandman, but it's brief. It's concentrated.' 'The energy that goes into the ground for the crowd noise is spread out in time, so if you add all that up, if you integrated it over time, you would come out with a signal coming from Lane Stadium that would be approximately a magnitude one or two earthquake, but they're very different kinds of signals,' he explained. Virginia Tech went on to share video of Metallica's triumphant encore performance of Enter Sandman to its news site, which showed deflated fans letting out disappointed sighs when the band first left the stage, only to rock out as soon as the group returned to sign off with its most popular song. The song isn't just a popular hit for students in the audience, as Virgina Tech's football team has used Enter Sandman as its walk-on music for more over two decades. Metallica — which formed in 1981 — is currently comprised of James Hetfiled on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Kirk Hammett on lead guitar and backing vocals, Robert Trujillo on bass and backing vocals and Lars Ulrich on drums. The group is currently touring in support of its 2023 album 72 Seasons, which was praised by critics as a return to the more complicated thrash-metal songs that Metallica played in the 1980s, before diversifying its sound in the '90s to mixed reviews. Following its ground-shaking Virginia Tech show, Metallica will be taking a break before returning to the road with two shows in Philadelphia on May 23 and 25, followed by touring throughout the US that will conclude with two shows in Denver, Colorado, on June 27 and 29. Then the group will head abroad with a show in Birmingham, England, on July 5, followed by November and December dates in Australia, New Zealand, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
