Summary - Canadian Industry Statistics

Definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the construction (including new work, additions and major alterations) of industrial buildings, except warehouses). The construction of selected additional structures, whose production processes are similar to those for industrial buildings (e.g., incinerators, cement plants, blast furnaces, and similar non-building operative builders, industry industrial building general contractors, industrial building operative builders, industry building design-build firms, and industrial building construction management firms.

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  Example Activities:
  Assembly plant construction
  Blast furnaces, construction
  Cement plant construction
  Incinerators, municipal waste disposal type, construction
  Industrial building construction, by general contactors
  Material recovery facilities, construction
  Refuse disposal plant construction

  Exclusions

  Establishments primarily engaged in:
  constructing warehouses (see 236220 Commercial and institutional building construction)
  constructing water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, and pumping stations for water and sewer
  systems (see 237110 Water and sewer line and related structures construction)
  constructing oil refineries and petrochemical plants (see 237120 Oil and gas pipeline and related
  structures construction)
  constructing power generation plants (except hydroelectric) (see 237130 Power and communication line
  and related structures construction)
  performing specialized construction work on industrial buildings, generally on a subcontract basis (see 238
  Specialty trade contractors)