Specialised machinery in the construction sector comprises equipment designed for specific construction tasks that fall outside the standard earthmoving and lifting categories. This includes ploughing and laying equipment, specialised vehicles for hydraulic engineering and track construction, as well as specialised superstructures.
Typical examples include cable ploughs and laying ploughs for utility lines, specialised track-laying machinery, snow ploughs based on construction machinery, specialised superstructures for bridge monitoring and inspection, vacuum cleaning vehicles for site clearance, and machines for specialised pile-driving tasks.
Manufacturers are often smaller specialist machinery builders such as Föckersperger, Inotec, Mecalac, Wirtgen (for specialist milling machines), Plasser & Theurer (track construction) and individual machinery manufacturers.
Specialised construction machinery is used in specialised civil engineering, track construction, the laying of utility lines using a laying plough, forestry, special hydraulic engineering projects, and wherever standard construction machinery reaches its limits.