How is Nexus different from a hire company?

Nexus isn't a hire company — we don't own the assets. We're the intelligence layer between you and the UK's hire market. Through Iris®, we manage Plant, Equipment & HGV hire across every supplier you'd otherwise deal with directly. You get one platform, one team, one invoice. We coordinate the network behind the scenes.

How does Iris® work with my existing suppliers?

Iris® is supplier-agnostic. We work with our accredited network of 125+ suppliers across 650+ branches, and we can onboard suppliers you already have relationships with. The platform doesn't restrict your choice — it consolidates how you manage that choice.

How much admin time can Nexus actually save?

Most businesses spend over two hours and £50–75 of administrative overhead on every hire — sourcing, compliance chasing, invoice reconciliation, off-hire admin. Across hundreds of hires a year, that's a measurable operational cost. Iris® eliminates most of it. The exact saving depends on your hire volume and current process — we model it for you in a demo.

What's covered under compliance management?

Iris® tracks LOLER, LBT, PMI, MOT, servicing schedules, and all associated paperwork in real time. Certificates are pre-validated, digitised, and downloadable. Expiry reminders fire automatically. The compliance dashboard gives you a live audit trail across your entire hire estate — no chasing, no spreadsheets.

What categories of hire does Nexus cover?

Five categories: Site & Ground Works (plant), Material Handling (forklifts, telehandlers), Access Equipment (MEWPs, scaffolding), Site Setup & Welfare (cabins, infrastructure), and HGV & Specialist Fleets (rigids, articulated, specialist HGV, light commercials). All managed through one platform.

How are damage claims and fines handled?

Both run through Iris® with full digital audit trails. Damage claims are pre-validated against supplier SLAs, with engineer and assessor reports captured digitally and overcharging challenged on your behalf. Fines are processed, validated, and available within 5 days, with driver, operator, and vehicle attribution stored against the hire record.

How do I get started?

Book an Iris® demo. We'll walk you through the platform, model your potential admin saving, and show you exactly what consolidated hire management looks like for your operation.

Site & Ground Works - Nexus Rental

Q: How does Nexus source specialist plant such as long-reach excavators?

The 125+ supplier network includes national plant operators, regional specialists, and local independents. For specialist hires — long-reach machines, demolition shears, rotating telehandlers — the right supplier is often a regional or specialist operator, coordinated through Iris® alongside everything else. You don't manage which supplier sources what; you manage one platform.

Q: How is plant compliance — LOLER, PMI, PUWER — tracked?

Every certificate is captured against the hire record, digitised, and downloadable on demand. The Iris® compliance dashboard surfaces upcoming expiries with proactive alerts, so PMIs and LOLER recertifications are coordinated before they become an audit risk — not after a Tier 1 site auditor flags one missing.

Q: What happens if a piece of plant goes off-road mid-project?

Off-road events are flagged inside Iris® the moment they're reported, with engineer attendance and repair-or-replace timelines tracked against the supplier's signed SLA. Replacement plant is sourced through the wider network where the original supplier can't fulfil — the project doesn't pause while one supplier scrambles.

Q: Can existing plant supplier relationships be onboarded into Iris®?

Yes. Iris® is supplier-agnostic. Existing supplier relationships can be onboarded into the platform alongside the Nexus accredited network. You keep the suppliers you trust; we consolidate how you manage them — including compliance, paperwork, damage, and reporting.

Site & Ground Works Hire
Managed End-to-End.

Excavators, dumpers, breakers, compaction — however many suppliers it takes, on one platform. Pre-delivery inspections, PMI tracking, and digitised paperwork on every hire.

A live groundworks site doesn't hire from one supplier. It hires excavators from one, tracked dumpers from another, breakers from a third, and compaction kit from a regional specialist. Five suppliers, five portals, five sets of compliance paperwork — and one Tier 1 audit looking for a single digital trail. Nexus is the consolidation layer that turns that fragmentation into one platform, one team, and one invoice.

Every category of plant.
One supplier relationship.

Heavy plant and machinery for earthmoving, excavation, demolition, and groundworks — sourced across the Nexus 125+ supplier network. Whether the hire is a 1.5t mini-excavator on a residential extension or a long-reach machine on a major civils project, it's coordinated, governed, and reported through the same platform.

i. Excavation

Excavators (mini → long-reach).

From 1.5t micros to 80t long-reach machines. Including specialist attachments — augers, breakers, grading buckets, tilt-rotators — sourced through the supplier most competitive on the spec.

ii. Loading

Loading equipment.

Skid steers, tracked loaders, wheeled loaders. Material movement on site, stockpile management, muck-shift. Right size, right reach, right place.

iii. Ground prep

Ground preparation.

Bulldozers, graders, vibrating rollers, plate compactors, trench rollers. Compaction equipment governed for compliance and operator certification.

iv. Demolition & breaking

Demolition, breaking & wackers.

Hydraulic breakers, demolition shears, crushers and screeners, wackers and rammers. Higher-spec compliance burden — handled inside the same audit trail.

v. Site transport

Site transport.

Articulated dumpers, tracked dumpers, swivel-tip dumpers, site vehicles. The high-volume hires that drag the most admin overhead when fragmented across suppliers.

Compliance on plant hire,
without the chasing.

Plant compliance fails in the gaps between suppliers. LOLER certs sitting in one supplier's inbox. A PMI overdue on a wheeled loader hired from a regional specialist. A PDI document that was emailed but never filed against the hire record. Each one is small. Across a multi-site, multi-supplier project, they compound into audit exposure.

The Iris^® Compliance Dashboard is the single layer that closes those gaps. Every LOLER certificate, every PMI schedule, every PDI document held against the hire — pre-validated, digitised, downloadable, and surfaced before expiry. Status flagged across the entire estate, so site teams act on what's at risk, not on what's already gone wrong.

Industry experts.
Not order-takers.

Iris^® shows you the hire estate. The Live Hire Desk is the team that runs it for you — UK-based plant, equipment and HGV specialists owning every hire end to end. Sourcing, compliance, delivery, escalations, damage, fines.

Sourcing on your behalf. Right kit, right place, right time — sourced from across 125+ accredited suppliers and 650+ UK branches.

ii.

Delivery and collection audits, completed for you. Pre-delivery inspections, condition reports, off-hire docs — all captured against the hire record.

iii.

Damage, fines, compliance — handled end-to-end. Cases opened, validated against SLAs, and challenged on your behalf where overcharging is flagged.

iv.

Invoices pre-checked. Every supplier invoice validated against signed terms before it reaches your finance team.

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See your plant operation on one platform.

Groundworks projects don't fail because the plant didn't arrive. They drift because the admin around the plant — sourcing, compliance, paperwork, damage, reconciliation — is fragmented across five suppliers and three systems.

Nexus is the consolidation layer that turns that fragmentation into one operation. A 30-minute Iris^® demo shows you exactly what your plant estate looks like when sourcing, compliance, and supplier coordination stop being separate jobs.

The intelligence layer behind every hire.

Industry experts. Not order-takers.

Numbers, answers, and the brochure.

Site & Ground Works Hire
Managed End-to-End.