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Access Equipment Hire.
Managed by Nexus. Powered by Iris®.

Powered access platforms, scaffolding, and height access solutions. One platform. One team. Every supplier.

Every piece of access equipment you hire generates compliance obligations, coordination overhead, and administrative cost that most businesses absorb without seeing. Nexus manages your access equipment hire across all your suppliers through Iris®, with LOLER compliance managed on every hire, breakdown response coordinated by our Live Hire Desk, and every hire documented from delivery to collection.

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02 · Scope

What We Offer.

MEWPs, mast climbers, scaffolding and tower systems sourced across our 125+ supply partner network.

i. MEWPs & specialist access

Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWPs) and Specialist Access.

Scissor lifts, boom lifts, spider lifts, mast lifts, atrium lifts, vehicle-mounted, and tracked for complex or restricted access environments for indoor and outdoor working at height. Available in electric, diesel and hybrid specifications.

ii. Scaffolding & towers

Scaffolding and Low-Level Access.

Low level access solutions and Push Around Vertical Access Systems (PAVs)

iii. Hybrid & zero-emission

Hybrid and Zero-Emission MEWPs.

Electric and hybrid platforms for indoor environments, urban sites, Clean Air Zones, and responsible procurement.

All categories accessed through one Iris® account.
03 · Service Standards

Service Standards.

01 / LOLER

LOLER certifications provided on delivery and available digitally on demand via Iris®.

02 / Breakdown

Breakdown response · within 4 hours.

03 / Repair-or-replace

Repair or replacement · within 24 hours.

04 / Quality control

Quality control audit checks completed on every delivery.

05 / Reporting

Monthly reporting with operational and commercial optimisation insights.

Customer and profile dependent. Full T&Cs apply.

The intelligence behind your operation

Most hire platforms give you tools to manage your suppliers yourself. You get a portal, a few dashboards, and a stack of new admin to do.

Iris® is different. It’s the platform we use to manage your suppliers for you. You get the visibility and control. We handle everything else. 

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01

Your suppliers stay. Your control improves.

Book equipment from any supplier through Iris®. Our live hire desk handles the coordination.

02

See everything in real time.

See every piece of equipment on-hire. One dashboard. Automated off-hire alerts.

03

One invoice. Total transparency.

One invoice covering all suppliers. Line-item visibility with export toolkits

04

Compliance management.

LOLER, Tacho, PMI, LBT, MOT dates tracked automatically. Backup paperwork downloadable on-demand.

07 · The Hire Desk

Industry experts.
Not order-takers.

The Nexus Live Hire Desk is much more than a booking service. It's our UK-based team of Plant, Equipment & HGV hire experts providing real operational support via live chat, phone, and email.

  • i.
    Plant, Equipment & HGV sourcing managed on your behalf. Right kit, right place, right time, sourced across 125+ accredited supply partners, 650+ UK branches and 700,000+ assets.
  • ii.
    Delivery and collection audit checks completed for you. Pre-delivery inspections, condition reports, off-hire docs, all captured against the hire record.
  • iii.
    Damage, fines, compliance, and escalations handled end to end. Cases validated against supplier SLAs and challenged on your behalf where overcharging is flagged.
  • iv.
    Invoices pre-checked, validated, and challenged where required. Every supplier invoice validated against signed terms before it reaches your finance team, all underpinned by full visibility and control through Iris®.
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11 · Common Questions

Common questions about
Nexus and Iris®.

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.
We work with our accredited network of 125+ suppliers across 650+ branches, and we can onboard supply partners you already have relationships with. The platform doesn't restrict your choice; it simply consolidates how you manage that choice.
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. Nexus eliminates most of it. The exact saving depends on your hire volume and current process. Try our calculator to see the potential savings for your operation. To view our calculator, click here.
Iris® provides end-to-end compliance management across your entire hired fleet. For Plant and Equipment this covers LOLER certifications, PDI documentation, and PMI tracking. For HGVs this extends to MOTs, laden brake testing, tachograph calibrations, and DVS requirements. All compliance records are pre-validated by our team before being digitised and made available on demand through Iris®. Proactive expiry alerts at 7 and 3 days ensure nothing is missed. Every record is audit-ready, downloadable, and held against the hire record.
Five categories: Site & Ground Works (heavy plant machinery & groundbreaking equipment), Material Handling (forklifts, telehandlers), Access Equipment (MEWPs, scaffolding, powered access), Site Setup & Welfare (cabins, infrastructure, power), and HGV & Specialist Fleets (rigids, articulated, specialist HGV, light commercials). All managed through one platform.
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08 · Talk to the Desk

Your Plant, Equipment & HGV hire.
Our intelligence.

Whether you are managing 50 hires a year or 5,000, the complexity is the same. We turn it into a single platform, a single invoice, and a single point of contact. Book a demonstration of Iris® and discover what complete visibility and zero overhead looks like for your operation.

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