Full article: Controversial Amsterdam metro extension delayed again — at yet higher costs

There is a new delay in the construction of the controversial North-South line extension of the Amsterdam metro.

The delay is due to the fact that the last few meters of metro station Vijzelgracht must be dug with the help of high air pressure in order to prevent the temporary construction walls from buckling under the pressure of ground water.

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Full article: Amsterdam metro tunnel drilling machine reaches Dam square

The giant drilling machine tunneling its way through the ground underneath Amsterdam's centuries-old inner city has reached Dam square.

At a speed of 15 meters a day it has already passed two state monuments -- the former stock market and the Bijenkorf warehouse. The historic buildings incurred no damage.

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Full article: Houses along new Amsterdam metro line construction site subsided

Two buildings at Vijzelgracht, along the construction site for the new North/South line of the Amsterdam metro system, have subsided.

Shopkeepers in the buildings blame the construction work, while the metro project bureau simply says those buildings already had 'bad foundations.'

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Full article: Owners of historic Amsterdam warehouse want metro drilling delayed over risks

Drilling for the North-South extension of the Amsterdam metro system is scheduled to start on March 11, but now warehouse De Bijenkorf has demanded the city first performs more research into the risks involved.

Persistent problems during the construction of underground stations for the metro line have already caused damage to several historical buildings.

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Full article: Metro-committee slams Amsterdam city government

The City of Amsterdam should never have approved the construction of the North-South metro line a special city council investigative committee concluded Tuesday.

The committee also urges the council to debate the risks associated with the planned drilling of a metro tunnel underneath the historic city center.

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Full article: Controversial Amsterdam metro project must continue, committee says

Amsterdam's problem-plagued North-South metro project should go ahead as planned, a special committee recommends.

The independent Veerman committee, headed by former agriculture minister Cees Veerman, was set up to advise the city on the future of the new metro line -- in light of constant budget overruns, revelations regarding deliberate lowball estimates during the bidding process, and damage to historic buildings.

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Full article: Collapse of building in Cologne reverberates in Amsterdam

The collapse yesterday of a buiding in the city center of Cologne, Germany, reverberated loudly in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

German authorities haven't yet determined what brought down the structure, which housed Cologne's historical archive, but the city is building a new subway line under the buildings that collapsed. Amsterdam is also building a subway line underneath its historic center, and buildings along the project have already sustained damage.

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Full article: Completion of new metro line unsure as Alderman resigns over cost overruns

It is unclear whether constuction on the new North-South line of the Amsterdam metro will ever be completed.

After yet another financial setback work on the project has virtually halted -- and today Tjeerd Herrema, Alderman for Traffic, Transport and Infrastructure, today resigned from his position.

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Full article: Monumental buildings damaged due to subway construction work

The fire brigade has removed the occupants of four buildings at Vijzelgracht, in Amsterdam center, because their homes had subsided during then night as a direct result of construction work for a new leg of Amsterdam's subway system

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Full article: Unstable Amsterdam is building a new subway line

Seventeenth-century masons built Amsterdam on a foundation of wooden poles planted in soggy, sandy ground, leaving behind a beautiful architectural museum -- but one with walls prone to sinking or crumbling without warning. So how do you dig a subway under it? Very carefully.

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