Construction equipments can be broadly classified as under:

1.Earthwork equipments:

• Earth cutting and moving equipments: Bulldozers, Scrapers, Front-end loaders, Motor graders.

• Excavation and lifting equipment: Backhoes, Power shovels, Draglines, Clamshells.

• Loading equipment: Loaders, shovels, Excavators.

• Transportation Equipment: Tippers, Dump trucks, Scrapers, Conveyors.

• Compacting Equipment: Tamping foot rollers, smooth wheel rollers, Pneumatic rollers, Vibratory rollers, plate compactors.

2.Concreting Plant and Equipments:

• Production Equipment : Batching plants, concrete mixers.

• Transportation equipment : Truck mixers, Concrete dumpers.

• Placing equipment : Concrete pumps, Conveyors, Hoists, Grouting equipment.

• Concrete Vibrating equipment: Needle vibrators, Plate compactors.

3.Material Hoisting Equipments:

• Hoists: Fixed, Mobile, Fork lifts.

• Mobile cranes: Crawler mounted, self propelled rubber tyred, truck mounted.

• Tower cranes: Stationary, Travelling type.

4.Special Purpose heavy construction plant and Equipments:

• Aggregate production equipment: Crushing plants, Rock blasting equipment, Screening plants.

• Concrete paving equipment: Concrete paver finishers.

• Pile driving equipment: Pile driving hammers.

• Asphalt mix production and Placement equipment: Asphalt plants, Asphalt pavers.

• Tunneling equipment: Drill Jumbos, Muck hauling equipment, Rock bolters, Tunnel boring machines.

5.Support & Utility services Equipment:

• Pumping and Dewatering equipment.

• Pipe laying equipment.

• Generators.

• Welding equipment.

The Role of Construction engineer in construction industry:

• The role of engineer on the job is required to match the right machine or combination of machines to the job at hand.

• For this purpose, he is required to identify the construction equipment for executing project tasks, assessing equipment performance capability, forecasting date wise requirement of numbers and types of equipment.

• The proper emphasis is required to be given by the engineer on reduction of down time, achieving optimum utilization, increase in production at minimum cost through right selection.

• He is also expected to coordinate with various wings of the project in discharging his job of equipment planning, balancing, selection of equipment, its deployment and preventive maintenance.