ADVANCED BUILDING CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

It is a common fact that we find a wide variety of construction machines on every construction sites, which
make the construction jobs easy, safe and quicker. Depending on the application, construction machines are
classified into various categories which we are discussing here.

A. Earthmoving equipment
B. Construction vehicles
C. Material handling equipment
D. Construction equipment

EARTHMOVING EQUIPMENTS
Earthmoving equipment is used in the construction industry to :
- shift large amounts of earth,
- dig foundations and landscape areas.

Types of earthmoving equipment include hydraulic excavators, bulldozers, compressors and loaders.

CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES
Engineering or Construction vehicles are heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing construction
(Civil engineering) tasks, most frequently, ones involving earth moving.

MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENTS

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENTS

TRACK-TYPE
A bulldozer is a crawler equipped with a substantial metal plate used to
push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble, or other such material
during construction or conversion work and typically equipped at the
rear with a claw-like device) to loosen densely compacted materials.

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A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a
high tractive effort at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling
a trailer or machinery used in construction.

GRADER
A grader, also commonly referred to as a road grader, a blade,
a maintainer, or a motor grader, is a construction machine with a long
blade used to create a flat surface during the grading process.

EXCAVATORS
A compact or mini excavator is a tracked or wheeled vehicle with an
approximate operating weight from 0.7 to 8.5 tonnes. It generally
includes a standard backfill blade and features independent boom
swing.

Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom,

dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the
"house".The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels.
They are a natural progression from the steam shovels and often
mistakenly called power shovels. All movement and functions of a
hydraulic excavator are accomplished through the use of hydraulic
fluid, with hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic motors.

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 BACKHOE
A backhoe loader is a heavy equipment vehicle that consists of
a tractor like unit fitted with a shovel/bucket on the front and a small
backhoe on the back. Due to its small size and versatility, backhoe
loaders are very common in urban engineering and small construction
projects as well as developing countries.

A backhoe is a piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a

digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm.

LOADER
A loader is a heavy equipment machine used in construction to move
aside or load materials such as asphalt, demolition
debris, dirt, snow, feed, gravel, logs, raw minerals, recycled
material, rock, sand, woodchips, etc. into or onto another type of
machinery.

MATERIAL HANDLERS
A cherry picker is a type of aerial work platform that consists of a
platform or bucket at the end of a hydraulic lifting system.

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A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist rope, wire
ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower
materials and to move them horizontally. It is mainly used for lifting
heavy things and transporting them to other places.

It uses one or more simple machines to create mechanical

advantage and thus move loads beyond the normal capability of a
human.

Cranes are commonly employed in the transport industry for the

loading and unloading of freight, in the construction industry for the
movement of materials and in the manufacturing industry for the
assembling of heavy equipment.

A forklift is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials

short distances.

PAVING
A paver is a piece of construction equipment used to lay asphalt on
roads, bridges, parking lots and other such places. It lays the asphalt
flat and provides minor compaction before it is compacted by a roller.

A road roller is a compactor type engineering vehicle used to compact

soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt in the
construction of roads and foundations, similar rollers are used also at
landfills or in agriculture.

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A compactor is a machine or mechanism used to reduce the size of
material such as waste material or bio mass through compaction.
A trash compactor is often used by a home or business to reduce the
volume of trash. A baler-wrapper compactor is often used for making
compact and wrapped bales in order to improve logistics.

HYDROMATIC TOOLS
A drilling rig is a machine that creates holes in the earth sub-surface.
Drilling rigs can be massive structures housing equipment used to drill
water wells, oil wells, or natural gas extraction wells, or they can be
small enough to be moved manually by one person and are
called augers. Drilling rigs can sample sub-surface mineral deposits, test
rock, soil and groundwater physical properties, and also can be used to
install sub-surface fabrications, such as underground utilities,
instrumentation, tunnels or wells. Drilling rigs can be mobile
equipment mounted on trucks, tracks or trailers, or more permanent
land or marine-based structures (such as oil platforms, commonly
called 'offshore oil rigs' even if they don't contain a drilling rig). The
term "rig" therefore generally refers to the complex of equipment that
is used to penetrate the surface of the Earth's crust.

A pile driver is a mechanical device used to drive piles (poles) into soil
to provide foundation support for buildings or other structures. The
term is also used in reference to members of the construction crew
that work with pile-driving rigs.

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 HIGHWAY
A dump truck (or, UK, dumper/tipper truck) is a truck used for
transporting loose material (such as sand, gravel, or dirt)
for construction. A typical dump truck is equipped with an open-box
bed, which is hinged at the rear and equipped with hydraulic pistons to
lift the front, allowing the material in the bed to be deposited
("dumped") on the ground behind the truck at the site of delivery.

A lowboy (low loader in British English, low-bed in western Canada

and South Africa or float in Australia) is a semi-trailer with two drops in
deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the
wheels.

A concrete mixer is a device that homogeneously

combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to
form concrete. A typical concrete mixer uses a revolving drum to mix
the components. For smaller volume works portable concrete mixers
are often used so that the concrete can be made at the construction
site, giving the workers ample time to use the concrete before it
hardens. An alternative to a machine is mixing concrete by hand. This is
usually done in a wheelbarrow; however, several companies have
recently begun to sell modified tarps for this purpose.

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