Construction machinery encompasses all equipment and machinery used in building construction, civil engineering, road construction and specialist construction. The main group includes earthmoving machinery such as excavators (mobile excavators, crawler excavators, mini excavators, compact excavators), loaders (wheel loaders, skid steer loaders) and compaction equipment (road rollers, vibratory plates, soil compactors).
The lifting equipment sector includes cranes, aerial work platforms, forklifts and dumpers. Asphalt pavers are used for road construction, whilst tunneling machinery, drilling rigs, earth rockets, screening plants and crushing plants, as well as dry ice blasting equipment, cover specialist applications. Generators, construction compressors and lighting masts ensure the supply of power on the construction site.
Well-known manufacturers include Caterpillar, Komatsu, Liebherr, Volvo Construction Equipment, JCB, Hitachi, Doosan, Bobcat, Wacker Neuson, Atlas Copco, Hyundai Construction and Kubota.
Applications range from building construction and civil engineering to earthmoving, gardening and landscaping, as well as demolition, recycling and specialist construction. Standard attachments such as backhoe buckets, hydraulic hammers, sorting grapples, quick-change couplers and pulverisers significantly expand the range of applications.