CS Metro Station North/South Line
- Client Municipality of Amsterdam
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Country
The Netherlands
- Location Amsterdam
- Status Delivered

CS Metro Station North/South Line
How do you build a metro station, including a tunnel, below the historical building of Amsterdam Central Station, while trains continue driving and passengers continue to make use of the station? With this challenge, Strukton Civiel got down to work. With new engineering techniques and smart phasing the solution was found.
One of the key requirements during construction was that it had to be possible for passengers to continue to make use of the station. With the large number of activities that were being carried out at the same time, that was quite a challenge. Activities were planned with passengers in mind. For example, dust barriers prevented inconvenience to passengers by keeping work activities out of sight. Noise pollution was kept to a minimum by planning activities such that work below the station could be carried out during night time.
With the large number of activities it was quite a challenge to make it possible for passengers to continue to make use of the station

Strukton Civiel is a world leader in the immersion specialism. We position tunnel elements and caissons accurately to the millimetre on the bottom of a river or sea. The immersion process remains the same. Execution is always custom work.
As soon as the table construct was complete, work commenced on the construction of the immersion trench. The soil below the table was excavated. After the completion of the immersion trench, concrete elements were sailed in from the IJ – a body of water and Amsterdam's waterfront – in phases and sunk into the immersion trench. An immersion tunnel as such is not all that unusual in the Netherlands. What made it unique in this instance is that the tunnel element was sunk below an existing building.
The North/South Line was commissioned on 22 July 2018. The Line saves passengers travelling North-South and vice versa 15 minutes of travelling time.