Where in Zuidas
The visitors were in luck. In shifts of around 30 minutes, they were briefed on the details of the shifting process against a backdrop of a 3 million kg sheet of concrete moving forward centimetre by centimetre. The shifting process started and ended at just the right time.
Timelapse
The men and women from the Nieuw-Zuid construction consortium had spent several months building this roof section for the Brittenpassage, the extra passenger tunnel for Amsterdam Zuid station. It is a colossus, 70 m in length, 14.5 m wide and 1.2 m thick. By November 2022, it was ready and waiting on the pre-construction platform. It was now time to move it from the platform closer towards the A10.
Watch how it went
Making room
The roof section needed to be removed from the pre-construction platform to make room for the next roof section for the Brittenpassage. The roof will consist of seven sections in total. Three of these are already in position, underneath railway tracks and a metro track. The fourth section is now ready and will be placed under railway track 1 and underneath one of the two additional train tracks that will be added to Amsterdam Zuid station in the future.
Fifth roof section
Firstly however, we are building the fifth roof section, for which place has now been created. It will ultimately be positioned underneath the other additional train track and under the A10. The construction workers are now cleaning the pre-construction platform and will then start immediately on the fifth roof section. The fourth and fifth roof sections will be moved diagonally across the A10 in August 2023. To make that possible, we are closing the A4 and the A10 Zuid in the direction of Utrecht for an eight-day period, starting at the Badhoevedorp interchange.
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