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Advanced Building Construction Equipment
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.