Variant of NAICS 1997 - Labour Force Survey (LFS) Industries

23122 - Non-Residential Building Construction

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in constructing commercial, institutional and industrial buildings. Important types of commercial and institutional buildings are offices, hotels, restaurants, arenas, churches and penitentiaries. Important types of industrial buildings are factories, and heavy industrial plants for the production of such products as aluminum and cement. The erection of prefabricated commercial or institutional buildings is also included.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • constructing apartment buildings (See 23121 Residential Building Construction)
  • constructing water filtration, sewage treatment and garbage disposal plants (See 23139 Other Engineering Construction)
  • constructing heavy industrial plants and mills, of which a building is incidental to the complex (See 23139 Other Engineering Construction)

231220 - Non-Residential Building Construction

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in constructing commercial, institutional and industrial buildings. Important types of commercial and institutional buildings are offices, hotels, restaurants, arenas, churches and penitentiaries. Important types of industrial buildings are factories, and heavy industrial plants for the production of such products as aluminum and cement. The erection of prefabricated commercial or institutional buildings is also included.

• Example Activities:

  • Aluminum plant construction, general contractors
  • Arena, construction
  • Broadcasting stations, construction
  • Building alterations, renovation and repairs, non-residential, general contractors
  • Building construction, non-residential, general contractors
  • Bush depots and camps, construction
  • Cement plants, construction
  • Cinemas, construction
  • Construction, non-residential, general contractors
  • Design-build non-residential contractors
  • Factories, construction
  • Farm buildings (except dwellings), construction
  • Hangars, aeroplane, construction
  • Hotel, construction
  • Industrial building construction, general contractors
  • Institutional buildings, construction
  • Iron foundries, construction
  • Office buildings and complexes, construction
  • Pre-engineered non-residential buildings, installation
  • Prefabricated building erection, non-residential, general contractors
  • Renovating buildings, non-residential, general contractors
  • Restaurants, construction
  • Shopping centres and complexes, construction
  • Warehouses, public, construction