Construction Site Equipment

Types of construction site equipment

Push-pull braces and formwork accessories

Adjustable push-pull braces set and hold walls, formwork and precast or tilt-up panels at an angle, and their screw adjustment pushes a panel out or draws it in until it stands plumb. Concrete and formwork crews use them for wall alignment, backshoring while concrete cures, bracing during interior work and holding structures steady during demolition. For framing, structural reinforcement or a support detail that needs an exact length, HERMEQ supplies steel I-beams cut to length.

Hole covers and stair edge protection

Floor hole covers close openings cored or left in a slab for pipes, ducts and conduit with a high-visibility, slip-resistant plastic board that sits low to the floor, and small hole covers take the smallest service penetrations. Open stair edges and stairwell voids are guarded with stair guard posts, where one post suits both straight runs and corners and takes three rails of scaffold plank or lumber, so a whole stair is protected with a single part. Finished floors and stair treads that need covering rather than guarding are served by temporary surface protection.

Trestle platform safety components

The trestles themselves are in the heavy duty saw horses range, and the parts in this group turn a trestle and plank platform into a guarded work platform for plastering, painting, electrical work and other interior trades. Trestle safety posts slot onto the trestle and carry guardrails and toe boards. Trestle stabilizers stiffen the platform when it is set up at height. Board S brackets overlap planks and keep guardrails and toe boards in line along longer runs. Access is from a trestle ladder bracket at the platform face, and a locking trestle platform gate fitted with it closes the access point to anyone not authorized to climb.

Ladders, staging and temporary stairways

Access to scaffold towers and working platforms starts with galvanized steel scaffold ladders, which have angled non-slip rungs and rubber feet for site ground. For wider platforms, aluminum staging boards span between trestles or scaffold towers and suit roofing, masonry and interior work where a crew needs room to move along the work face. The boards sit on staging posts and brackets, and handrail posts and brackets clamp on to build a guardrail from tube and scaffold planks already on site. Where guarding is needed from the first day, the staging walkway with handrails arrives with its handrails fitted to the board.

Between floors and up embankment slopes, the modular steel stairway connects in units to suit the height, and the lighter aluminum stairway, with an adjustable pitch, suits sites where access points move often. Amber LED scaffold lights with a dusk sensor mark scaffolds beside streets and sidewalks after dark.

Curb stone lifters and handles

A clamp that grips a curb, edging block or paver by its sides lets the crew set it without hands underneath, and replaceable rubber jaws protect the finished faces. The manual curb stone handle is a one-person tool for setting curbs, blocks and pavers on driveways and landscaping. The two-person curb and slab handle takes larger curbs and edging units with an adjustable jaw. The crane and manual curb stone lifter works under a hook or carried by two people, and it resets itself between picks. For highway curb lines and large structural or decorative stones, the heavy-duty curb stone clamp also works by crane or by hand.

Forklift jibs and handling attachments

A forklift or telehandler becomes a crane-style lift with a fork-mounted jib, whose beam telescopes and angles upward and whose several hook points let the crew rig loads that will not sit on forks. The roof truss jib mounts with a quick hitch and lifts and places roof trusses. The forklift gas cylinder cradle holds a single cylinder strapped and locked on the forks while it is moved across the site. Wheeled material carts on casters move loads across floors and yards without a machine.

Ground pins and steel stakes

Each forged steel pin in the range is shaped for what it holds. Line pins hold road forms, form boards and string lines while concrete is placed and sets, and they are the pins for laying out a structure or a curb line. Fencing pins have a hooked head and stabilize mesh fence panels and barrier runs, and the rest of the fence hardware is under temporary fencing accessories. U pins anchor erosion control mesh, geotextiles and grass reinforcement matting flat to slopes and turf. Washer pins take cords, cables and tarps, and hooked tent pins secure tents, event tents and barriers. Mushroom head pins come plain, hooked for guy lines, or collared for a firmer seat under repeated hammering.

Boot wash stations and sanitation stations

A boot cleaning station at the site exit keeps mud off site trailers, finished floors and public roads. The water-fed boot wash station combines a galvanized grid, brushes and built-in drainage in inline or back-to-back layouts, the second for tight entrances, and suits busy gates on larger jobs. The boot brush station is a compact, stackable steel unit for trailer doors, crew paths and containment zones. The fixed-brush boot cleaner is a powder-coated steel frame with nylon brushes set in place. The site sanitation station is a galvanized, wipe-clean cleaning point on lockable casters that moves to wherever crews gather, indoors or out.

Matching jobsite equipment to load and ground

The choices that cut across this range come down to the load, the ground and the equipment already on site.

Lifting method and load

The heaviest single unit decides the method. Manual curb and slab handles cover units up to 440 lb and suit crews setting curbs and pavers by hand along a run. Crane-and-manual clamps go up to 1,100 lb, so one tool works under a crane hook on heavy sections and by hand on short pieces. Fork-mounted jibs cover 2,200 to 11,000 lb across the range and are the choice when the load is heavier still, awkward in shape, or has to be placed beyond the reach of the forks. Choose a rating above the heaviest unit on the job, and check the jaw opening of a curb tool against the width of the stone.

Ground and surface conditions

On hard or compacted soil, line pins drive in on their pointed tips and hold under repeated hammering. Soft ground suits washer, tent and mushroom head pins, and U pins grip loose soil on slopes because their legs spring tight once driven. Indoors, small hole covers push-fit into the opening on spring legs without screws, which suits a slab that should not be drilled, while floor hole covers screw-fix to a concrete slab or wood deck where the cover must stay fixed for the whole job. Boot cleaning follows the water supply: the water-fed station needs a supply and drainage at the entrance, and the boot brush station is filled by hand and needs no hookup.

Fit with the equipment already on site

Most accessories in the range attach to equipment a site already owns, so its dimensions come first. The double and swivel couplers fit 1.9 in scaffold tube. Trestle safety posts fit flat-top trestles, and the stabilizers and S brackets are made to work with HERMEQ trestles and boards as one system. Staging posts and brackets are matched to 18 in or 24 in staging boards, so order the width of the boards in use, while the handrail posts and brackets fit any staging board width. Each hole cover is sized to an opening, so measure the largest opening on the floor before ordering and choose a cover that overlaps it on every side.