Demolition is the tearing-down of buildings and other structures.

A wrecking ball is a heavy steel ball, usually hung from a crane, that is used for
demolishing large buildings. It was most commonly in use during the 1950s and
1960s
Jackhammer (pneumatic drill or demolition hammer) s a pneumatic or electromechanical tool that combines a hammer directly with a chisel. It was invented by
Charles Brady King.
The Hydrofraise is a drilling machine powered by three down-the-hole motors with
reverse mud circulation. A heavy metal frame serving as a guide is fitted at its base
with two cutter drums carrying tungsten carbide-tipped cutters which rotate in
opposite directions and break up the soil or rock.
Earthworks are engineering works created through the moving or processing of
parts of the earth's surface involving quantities of soil or unformed rock.
Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, stick, bucket
and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". All movement and functions
of a hydraulic excavator are accomplished through the use of hydraulic fluid, with
hydraulic cylinders and hydraulic motors.
A dragline excavator. These units (like other cranes) are designed to be
dismantled and transported over the road on flatbed trailers. Draglines used in civil
engineering are almost always of this smaller, crane type. These are used for road,
port construction, pond and canal dredging, and as pile driving rigs.
A loader is a heavy equipment machine used in construction and sidewalk
maintenance to move aside or load materials such as asphalt, demolition debris,
dirt, snow, feed, gravel, logs, raw minerals, recycled material, rock, sand,
woodchips, etc. into or onto another type of machinery
A backhoe, also called a rear actor is a piece of excavating equipment or digger
consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. Backhoe
loaders are very common and can be used for a wide variety of tasks: construction,
small demolitions, light transportation of building materials, powering building
equipment, digging holes/excavation, landscaping, breaking asphalt, and paving

roads. The backhoe bucket can also be replaced with powered attachments such
as a breaker, grapple, auger, or a stump grinder.
Dredging is an excavation activity or operation usually carried out at least partly
underwater, in shallow seas or fresh water areas with the purpose of gathering up
bottom sediments and disposing of them at a different location.
A tunnel boring machine (TBM) also known as a "mole", is a machine used to
excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil and rock
strata.
Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of
ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope,[1] for a construction work such
as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and garden
improvements, or surface drainage.
Grader, also commonly referred to as a road grader. Graders are commonly used
in the construction and maintenance of dirt roads and gravel roads. In the
construction of paved roads they are used to prepare the base course to create a
wide flat surface for the asphalt to be placed on.
Soil compaction is the process in which a stress applied to a soil causes
densification as air is displaced from the pores between the soil grains. Soil
compaction is a vital part of the construction process. It is used for support of
structural entities such as building foundations, roadways, walkways, and earth
retaining structures to name a few.
A road roller is a compactor type engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel,
concrete, or asphalt in the construction of roads and foundations,
for hauling loose materials
A bulldozer is a crawler (continuous tracked tractor) equipped with a substantial
metal plate (known as a blade) used to push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble,
or other such material during construction or conversion work and typically

equipped at the rear with a claw-like device (known as a ripper) to loosen densely
compacted materials.
A dump truck (or, UK, dumper\ tipper truck) is a truck used for transporting loose
material (such as sand, gravel, or dirt) for construction. A typical dump truck is
equipped with an open-box bed, which is hinged at the rear and equipped with
hydraulic pistons to lift the front, allowing the material in the bed to be deposited
("dumped") on the ground behind the truck at the site of delivery.
A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist, wire ropes or chains,
and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them
horizontally. Cranes are commonly employed in the transport industry for the
loading and unloading of freight, in the construction industry for the movement of
materials and in the manufacturing industry for the assembling of heavy
equipment.
Tower cranes are a modern form of balance crane that consist of the same basic
parts. Fixed to the ground on a concrete slab (and sometimes attached to the sides
of structures), tower cranes often give the best combination of height and lifting
capacity and are used in the construction of tall buildings.
A loader crane is a hydraulically powered articulated arm fitted to a truck or trailer,
and is used for loading/unloading the vehicle. The numerous jointed sections can
be folded into a small space when the crane is not in use.
Others
A crusher is a machine designed to reduce large rocks into smaller rocks, gravel,
or rock dust. Crushers may be used to reduce the size, or change the form, of
waste materials so they can be more easily disposed of or recycled, or to reduce
the size of a solid mix of raw materials (as in rock ore), so that pieces of different
composition can be differentiated.