Excavators and Electric Excavators.
Mini to large, including long-reach. From 1.5t micros to specialist long-reach machines, with attachments including augers, breakers, grading buckets, and grab attachments.
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- Site & Ground Works Excavators, dumpers, rollers, breakers, compactors.
- Site Setup & Welfare Cabins, fencing, generators, tower lights, CCTV.
- Access Equipment MEWPs, scissor lifts, boom lifts, scaffold towers.
- HGV & Specialist Fleets Tractor units, curtainsiders, tippers, tankers.
- Material Handling Forklifts, telehandlers, reach trucks, pallet trucks.
Iris®
The intelligence layer behind every hire.
125+ supply partners, bookings, compliance, fines, damage, reporting.
The team
Industry experts. Not order-takers.
UK-based plant, equipment and HGV specialists owning every hire end to end.
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Site & Ground Works Hire
Managed by Nexus. Powered by Iris®.
Heavy plant and machinery for earthmoving, excavation, demolition, and groundworks. One platform. One team. Every supplier.
A groundworks site rarely hires from a single supplier. Excavators, dumpers, breakers, and compaction kit often come from different providers, each with their own portal, compliance schedule, and invoice. Nexus brings all of that together through Iris®, coordinated by our Live Hire Desk.
02 · Scope
All categories accessed through one Iris® account.
What We Offer
Heavy plant and machinery for earthmoving, excavation, demolition, and groundworks sourced from our 125+ supply partner 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.
Loading Equipment.
Skid steer loaders, tracked loaders, and wheeled loaders for material movement, stockpile management, and muck-shift.
Ground Preparation .
Bulldozers, graders, compaction equipment, vibrating rollers, push along rollers, ride-on rollers, plate compactors, and trench rollers.
Demolition and Breaking Equipment.
Breakers, demolition shears, crushers, screeners, wackers, and rammers.
Site Transport.
Dumpers, tracked dumpers, swivel-tip dumpers, and site vehicles.
03 · Service Standards
Service Standards
Every supplier in our network signs up to the same operational standards for plant hire, tracked through Iris® and audited annually. Groundworks equipment hired through Nexus ensures service standards you can depend on.
01 / Pre-delivery
Pre-delivery inspection docs on every hire.
02 / Booking
Manage bookings instantly via Iris®.
03 / PMI
PMIs tracked, with paperwork validated and available digitally.
04 / Paperwork
Delivery and collection docs accessible via Iris®.
05 / Supplier audit
All suppliers regularly audited for quality, health, safety, and environmental accreditations.
06 / Damage
End-of-hire damage flagged and validated against the supplier's signed SLA, challenged on your behalf where overcharging is identified.
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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Your suppliers stay. Your control improves.
Book equipment from any supplier through Iris®. Our live hire desk handles the coordination.
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See everything in real time.
See every piece of equipment on-hire. One dashboard. Automated off-hire alerts.
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One invoice. Total transparency.
One invoice covering all suppliers. Line-item visibility with export toolkits
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Compliance management.
LOLER, Tacho, PMI, LBT, MOT dates tracked automatically. Backup paperwork downloadable on-demand.
07 · The Hire Desk
Industry experts.
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.
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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.
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Delivery and collection audit checks completed for you. Pre-delivery inspections, condition reports, off-hire docs, all captured against the hire record.
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Damage, fines, compliance, and escalations handled end to end. Cases validated against supplier SLAs and challenged on your behalf where overcharging is flagged.
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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®.
11 · Common Questions
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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.
08 · Talk to the Desk
Your Plant, Equipment & HGV hire.
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.
