Leading Irish civil engineering firm Roadbridge is set to move forward with projects at Dublin Airport and a Facebook data centre in Meath with new machinery.

The company has agreed a deal to purchase multiple new Komatsu machines, including two HB365LC-3 and one HB215LC-3 Hybrids and a PC210LCi-11 unit with Intelligent Machine Control.

Komatsu Hybrids are seen as 'heavyweight excavators with a lightweight environmental impact' whose significant fuel savings come by combining engine power with a proven hybrid mechanism whose battery output is kept charged by the machine's own swing movement.  

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Using intelligent machine control, operators have more accurate control of ground preparation. Automatically, the bucket is prevented from digging beyond the target surface, thereby maintaining grade automatically with real-time bucket edge positioning, both in relation to the machine and the job surface.

Other Komatsu machines forming part of the Roadbridge purchase include a number of PC490LC-11 excavators, PC138US-11 short tail swing crawler excavators, D65PX-18 and D85PX-18 dozers and PC55MR-5 and PC26MR-3 minis.

Commenting, John O'Brien, sales director with Komatsu distributor, McHale Plant Sales said: "By investing in latest machine technology, Roadbridge demonstrates the importance it attaches to self-reliance in matters of fleet availability and its function in promoting a strong, positive image for the company within the civil works contracting sphere."

These machines will be utilised by Roadbridge at Dublin Airport as well as a major road realignment at Collooney and the Facebook data centre in Clonee.

(CM/JG)