2005 Events
Traditional topping out ceremony custom: The carpenters' toast.
The symbolic final hammer blow.
Construction Workers and Fraunhofer Employees Celebrate the Topping Out of the VDTC
On December 21, 2005, work at the VDTC construction site didn't progress as speedily as usual for a change. No surprise: Tables and benches had been brought in and heaters and spotlights set up.
Numerous helpers gave their all to make it possible to celebrate a properly festive topping out ceremony at the wintry construction site. And so it came to happen as it should: Construction workers, architects and Fraunhofer IFF employees all made the night day.
The next time numerous guests gather in Magdeburg’s Port of Science will be to open the new building of the Virtual Development and Training Centre VDTC. The date is already set. When Magdeburg’s Fraunhofer researchers open the doors to their new facility on November 22, the interested public will be able to find out how development, testing and training functions in virtual worlds.
The VDTC will not only arouse interest in Saxony-Anhalt but also in all of Germany – and perhaps throughout the world. As one of the 365 landmarks in the "Land of Ideas" the VDTC is allowed to represent Germany in the world as part of this initiative in the year of the World Cup.
Contact:
Anna-Kristina Wassilew
VDTC Media and Public Relations
Tel.: +49 (0) 391/ 40 90 446
Fax: +49 (0) 391/ 40 90 93 446
Fraunhofer Institute for
Factory Operation and Automation IFF
Sandtorstrasse 22
39106 Magdeburg
Numerous helpers gave their all to make it possible to celebrate a properly festive topping out ceremony at the wintry construction site. And so it came to happen as it should: Construction workers, architects and Fraunhofer IFF employees all made the night day.
The next time numerous guests gather in Magdeburg’s Port of Science will be to open the new building of the Virtual Development and Training Centre VDTC. The date is already set. When Magdeburg’s Fraunhofer researchers open the doors to their new facility on November 22, the interested public will be able to find out how development, testing and training functions in virtual worlds.
The VDTC will not only arouse interest in Saxony-Anhalt but also in all of Germany – and perhaps throughout the world. As one of the 365 landmarks in the "Land of Ideas" the VDTC is allowed to represent Germany in the world as part of this initiative in the year of the World Cup.
Contact:
Anna-Kristina Wassilew
VDTC Media and Public Relations
Tel.: +49 (0) 391/ 40 90 446
Fax: +49 (0) 391/ 40 90 93 446
Fraunhofer Institute for
Factory Operation and Automation IFF
Sandtorstrasse 22
39106 Magdeburg