SANY construction equipment comes with all sorts of attributes, but one of the best is the variety of different vehicles, which enables you to tailor them to the wide variety of construction projects found in the UK.
Among the most notable variations are the different sizes of SANY excavators. Our range includes:
- Nine mini excavator models
- Six small excavator models
- Three medium excavator models
- Three large excavator models
Why is it important to get the correctly-sized excavator?
This wide choice enables you to select exactly what suits the construction site you are working on. This can be particularly useful in the UK for various reasons.
Firstly, the government and local councils prefer a ‘brownfield first’ approach to construction, especially housing, for several reasons.
- Research has indicated that rapid progress could be made on the construction of up to 1.5 million homes on brownfield land
- Doing this protects the green belt, which covers 12.5 per cent of England
- Projects that re-use or partially re-use existing buildings can save on embodied carbon emissions. The UK Green Building Council has estimated they account for 20 per cent of Britain’s carbon emissions.
- Building in urban brownfield areas removes dereliction and creates new homes in areas of need
However, brownfield construction can create some complexities for construction, including some developments being squeezed into small footprints between other buildings. This is where mini excavators may be useful, as they can fit where larger machines can’t.
At the same time, in the central areas of bigger cities, many brownfield sites are becoming the locations for very large and often very tall buildings, especially in London, Manchester and Birmingham.
In these cases, larger excavators can be especially useful, as the foundations need to be deeper for increasingly tall and imposing structures.
As the UK builds taller, re-uses existing sites more and tries to be more flexible with space, the variety of different sizes and capacities of SANY equipment can ensure that whatever the specifications of a project, there is a model in the range that will be suited to it.
