Turner Launches First Equipment Company

The Daily Dig:

Turner Construction has just officially launched First Equipment Company, a wholly owned subsidiary created to centralize equipment rental and core job site services across its U.S operations. The company formalizes a model Turner has already used on major projects, pulling equipment procurement, logistics, and site support under one organization. Services include heavy and operating equipment, temporary power and lighting, trailers, fencing, and site access controls, areas that routinely slow projects when handled through fragmented vendors.

First Equipment Company operates with dedicated leadership and regionally based teams embedded in local markets. Its primary role is to support Turner led projects and the trade partners working on them, improving consistency, availability, and response time across job sites. Turner frames the business as a long-term operational platform, not a pilot, aimed at standardizing site readiness from early mobilization through closeout.

Turner also notes that the company is built around experienced equipment professionals rather than project staff wearing multiple hats. That distinction matters. It signals a shift toward treating equipment and site services as a permanent operational function, not an ad hoc task pushed onto already stretched field teams.

TheJobWalk Thoughts:

Just when you thought Turner couldn’t get any bigger, they break into a new market. Equipment availability is increasingly slowing down jobs each year, this is about removing that problem. Turner is choosing control over convenience, and they’re confident it’s going to pay off. What’s next? Starting their own material company!