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Equipment demand is planned too late
Needs are buried in schedules, emails, and spreadsheets until the jobsite is already under pressure.
Construction equipment planning
Plan every phase.Equip every project.
Varduno turns construction schedules into a clear equipment strategy—so the right machines arrive at the right time, with the right commercial model behind them.
Phase-based planning Rental-ready RFQs Usage & cost control
Equipment plan
North Tower · Phase 04
Phase demand
Interior fit-out
Sep 14–Oct 30
47 days
Electric scissor lifts12 units
Mast lifts4 units
Telehandlers2 units
18
Peak units
$31k
Forecast
3
Open actions
Procurement
RFQ ready
17 equipment lines validated and ready to issue.
2 date conflicts
Resolve overlapping demand before mobilization.
The problem
Equipment planning is still disconnected from the project plan.
Project teams know what they are building. Rental partners know what machines they can supply. Varduno connects the missing middle: when equipment is needed, how much is required, and how the cost should flow.
02
Rental decisions lack one source of truth
Teams over-rent to protect the schedule—or under-plan and pay for emergency deliveries and downtime.
03
Ownership and billing get complicated
Shared pools, subcontractor chargebacks, direct billing, and owned assets all require different controls.
One connected workflow
From construction schedule to controlled equipment pool.
A planning layer built for the people who schedule, procure, coordinate, and pay for equipment.
Plan
Build demand around project phases
Translate the schedule into a clear equipment plan by phase, location, trade, and date—before the work starts.
- Phase-based demand
- Category-specific requirements
- Owned vs. rental visibility
Procure
Turn the plan into a rental-ready RFQ
Create a structured request with quantities, specifications, delivery windows, commercial terms, and vendor response fields.
- Standardized RFQs
- Comparable vendor responses
- Fewer missing details
Control
Know who uses what—and who pays
Configure the project’s equipment model and keep usage, responsibility, and costs aligned from mobilization to off-rent.
- Shared-pool policies
- Usage attribution
- Chargeback-ready records
How it works
Make equipment a planned project resource—not a last-minute order.
Varduno gives project teams one repeatable method from early planning through rental procurement and site control.
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Map the project
Set phases, dates, locations, trades, and site conditions.
- 02
Plan the demand
Define equipment categories, quantities, specifications, and timing.
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Match the supply
Allocate owned assets, identify rental gaps, and issue a complete RFQ.
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Control the model
Track the pool, attribute use, and support the correct billing flow.
Integrations
Your existing tools.One coordinated equipment plan.
A new approach to equipment planning, built around the information you already have.
Bring drawings, PDF documents, schedules, BIM, fleet data and project conversations into one planning workspace. Varduno is designed to turn that information into clearer decisions about what equipment is needed, where and when—across owned, shared and rental options. As the project changes, teams can revisit the plan with the context to act.
Building information & BIM
Project schedules & tasks
Resource planning
Files, PDFs & drawings
Owned fleet & telematics
Equipment sharing
Team conversations
Email & contacts
Companies & relationships
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Ecosystem examples shown. Adobe Acrobat and Bluebeam represent PDF document workflows. Connector and upload availability varies by configuration.
Consulting services
Expert-led equipment planning for projects where getting it wrong is expensive.
Varduno Consulting helps general contractors plan, source, and mobilize equipment across complex projects—using the schedule, physical constraints, workforce, logistics, supplier data, and commercial assumptions that shape real demand.
The result is an executable, project-wide strategy designed to reduce idle equipment, unnecessary deliveries, schedule risk, cost, and carbon emissions.
One project-wide strategy
Bring the decisions together before equipment reaches site.
Project reality
Schedule, phases, trades, access, and site constraints.
Connected decisions
Equipment pools, suppliers, logistics, and digital workflows.
Measured outcomes
Cost, utilization, productivity, and carbon performance.
What · How many · When · Where · Share · Off-rent
Planned before it becomes cost or delay.
One plan. The right equipment model.
Coordinate equipment across trades. Make costs clear.
Plan equipment together, then choose how it is supplied, shared and paid for. Varduno supports five models—or a mix that fits your project.
- Subcontractor-managed
- Each trade sources and pays for its own equipment.
- GC-included pool
- Trades share equipment provided by the general contractor, with costs included in the project arrangements.
- GC chargeback pool
- The general contractor supplies shared equipment and charges trades under agreed rules.
- Vendor direct billing
- Equipment follows a coordinated project plan; the rental partner bills each trade directly.
- Hybrid fleet
- Owned and rented equipment work together, with clear responsibilities and cost allocation.
Choose the right mix by project, phase or equipment type.
Built for complex, equipment-intensive projects
Data centres & industrial
Healthcare & institutional
Commercial construction
Warehousing & logistics
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See how Varduno can strengthen your equipment planning.
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