Sarah McGillivary, Dominic Nelson (both Rosebank Primary) and Jak Adams and Fiona Okeke (both Our Lady's) starting the topping off ceremony over the radio with foreman Sean McGee.
A ‘topping out’ ceremony was held at Dundee’s V&A museum on Wednesday as construction reached a “key milestone”.
The event involved the ceremonial positioning of a Douglas Fir tree at the highest point of the building, two years after construction first began.
Two weeks ago, scaffolding was removed from the outside of the structure, revealing the shape of the museum for the first time.
Pupils from Our Lady’s and Rosebank primary schools were in attendance and gave the radio call for the tree to be winched up to the highest point of the building.
The ‘topping out’ tradition can be traced back to ancient Scandinavia when Vikings would place a tree atop a newly constructed building to appease tree-dwelling spirits.
It is now common place to celebrate in the same way when a building’s highest point is constructed, with the V&A’s highest beam recently put in place.
