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JSIC D—Construction

Division · Japan Standard Industrial Classification (Rev. 14 (2023)) · spans divisions 06-08

Where D sits

D Construction

Contains 3 narrower codes

Description

This Division comprises establishments primarily engaged in construction work mainly by accepting an order, or for self-construction (construction for the establishment itself).

Establishments primarily engaged in conducting the maintenance and repair work of self-construction, and those engaged in planning, researching, surveying, designing, supervising and the like for construction work are not included in this Division.

Construction work

"Construction work" refers to the following work conducted at the working site. (1) Newly constructing, rebuilding, repairing, demolishing, eliminating, or removing of such items as buildings, civil engineering facilities and other structures stuck continually to the ground, and facilities attached to them. (2) The improvement or development of land, navigation channels, watercourse, etc. (3) Installing, dismantling or transferring of mechanical facilities.

Establishments

"Construction establishments" refer to head offices (or the residence of the proprietor of the business in the case of an establishment under private management, or the like, which has no office like a head office), branch offices or other offices which are regularly involved in executing contracts of construction work, or offices that manage construction sites. The site where construction work is operated is not considered an establishment, but integrated into the office that manages the site to be an establishment as a whole.

Relationship between "Construction" and other industries

(1) In cases where establishments engaged in the production or sales of construction materials or other products are also conducting the construction work business (excluding the installing, dismantling or transferring of mechanical installations) using their own products or purchased products, they will be classified in the "Manufacturing," "Wholesale trade," or "Construction" as the case may be, according to the type of their major operations. (2) Establishments primarily engaged in contracting for test drilling, excavating of galleries or pits, well drilling, and earth removing for the purpose of excavating and quarrying minerals, such as metals, non-metals, coal, oil, natural gas, are classified in the Division C – MINING AND QUARRYING OF STONE AND GRAVEL [05]. (3) Regarding real estate such as land, and buildings and houses, the lessors, agents, brokers, managers, sellers of ready-built buildings and houses (excluding establishments that employ workers for themselves, construct buildings and houses, and sell them in parcels), and sellers of subdivided land (excluding establishments that employ workers for themselves, develop land and sell it in parcels) are classified in the Division K– REAL ESTATE AND GOODS RENTAL AND LEASING [68, 69]. (4) Establishments primarily engaged in test drilling (excluding for mining), surveying, or consulting, designing, or supervising related to construction work, are classified in the Division L – SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL SERVICES [742]. (5) Work-site offices and civil engineering offices and the like of the state and local public organizations, except ones that primarily conduct self-construction work (excepting maintenance and repairs), are classified in the Division L – SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL SERVICES [7421]. (6) The establishments which undertake and provide services for planning, design, supply, construction and construction management for plants such as oil refining, chemistry, iron manufacture, power generation in a lump, are classified in Division L － SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL SERVICES [7499].