Examples of construction activities

Construction activities relate to the erection, excavation, installation, alteration, modification, repair, improvement, demolition, destruction, dismantling, or removal of any part of a building, structure, surface or sub-surface construction.

• Air conditioning work
• Asphalt paving
• Carpet work
• Commercial refrigeration work (for example, the refrigerator is large and a component part of the building)
• Concrete pouring and finishing
• Demolition
• Dry and wet heating
• Drywalling
• Duct and sheet metal work
• Electrical work
• Elevator and escalator work
• Environmental control work
• Excavating and grading
• Fencing
• Finish carpentry
• Form work
• Gas pipe work
• Glass and glazing work
• Hardwood flooring installation
• Heavy equipment rental with an operator (if there is no operator it is just rental and not a construction activity)
• Insulation work
• Masonry work
• Painting and decorating
• Pile driving
• Plastering and stucco
• Plumbing
• Precast concrete installation
• Resilient flooring and carpet work
• Roofing and shingling
• Rough and framing carpentry
• Septic system installation
• Sheet metal and built-up roofing
• Shingling
• Siding work
• Sprinkler system work
• Steel reinforcing
• Structural steel erection
• Swimming pool installation
• Terrazzo and tile work
• Tile work
• Water well drilling
• Wrecking and demolition

Examples of structures, surface or sub-surface construction

• Highways, streets and bridges
• Waterworks and sewage systems
• Hydro electric power plants
• Power and telecommunication transmission lines
• Gas and oil pipelines
• Industrial and commercial buildings
• Personal homes and residences
• Apartment buildings

Examples of items not considered structures, surface or sub-surface construction

• Ships
• Planes
• Satellites

These items are constructed but are not structures.