Equipment Selection: The Hidden Driver of Project Risk

24 Feb 2026 CW Team

Renting the wrong construction equipment can play havoc with project deadlines and budgets. But what is the right equipment? CW explores further.

Project cost overruns, safety incidents and low utilisation rarely come from execution alone – they start much earlier, at the moment a machine is selected, according to Ashishkumar Tiwari, Director, MyCrane.

As for cranes, a construction equipment that is frequently rented instead of bought, he says, “Crane selection errors commence with the question ‘which crane is available?’ instead of ‘which crane does the job demand?’...

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