{"id":19935,"date":"2025-11-26T11:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=19935"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:29:25","slug":"launching-creg-variable-diameter-tbm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=19935","title":{"rendered":"Launching CREG variable-diameter TBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the world\u2019s first in situ variable-diameter machine,CREG\u2019s in situ variable-diameter TBM has been commissioned on the Guangzhou\u2013Baiyun Intercity Railway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With ability of expanding from 8.83m to 12.45m,during the diameter transformation of this Variable Diameter No. 1 the excavation area increases by almost 98%, while the formed tunnel inner diameter area increases by about 89%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to CREG:&#8221;The technology enables green, low-impact construction with less disturbance, minimal surface impact, and low interference. It eliminates the need for surface excavation or additional working sites, allowing a single TBM to continuously construct both the running tunnel and the station platform structure.The technology is especially well-suited for dense urban cores with heavy traffic, limited land availability, and complex demolition conditions, offering significant potential for future urban infrastructure development.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world\u2019s first in situ variable-diameter machine,CREG\u2019s in situ variable-diameter TBM has been commissioned on the Guangzhou\u2013Baiyun Intercity Railway. With ability of expanding from 8.83m to 12.45m,during the diameter transformation of this Variable Diameter No. 1 the excavation area increases by almost 98%, while the formed tunnel inner diameter area increases by about 89%. According to CREG:&#8221;The technology enables green, low-impact construction with less disturbance, minimal surface impact, and low interference. It eliminates the need for surface excavation or additional working sites, allowing a single TBM to continuously construct both the running tunnel and the station platform structure.The technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[120,5302,5303,47,5304],"class_list":["post-19935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-creg-variable-diameter-tbm","tag-guangzhou-baiyun-intercity-railway","tag-tunneling","tag-variable-diameter-no-1","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19937,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19935\/revisions\/19937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}