43.120Level 5
Site preparation
Explanatory note
This class includes:
- clearing of building sites
- earth moving (e.g. excavation, landfill, levelling, trench digging, blasting)
This class also includes:
- site preparation for mining, e.g.:
- overburden removal and other development and preparation of mineral properties and sites, except oil and gas sites
- building site drainage
- drainage of agricultural or forestry land
- site preparation for archaeological excavation
This class excludes:
- drilling of production oil or gas wells, see 06.10, 06.20
- test drilling, associated with extraction of petroleum or gas, see 09.10
- test drilling and boring support services (e.g. associated with mining activities), see 09.90
- decontamination of soil, see 39.00
- water well drilling, see 42.21
- shaft sinking, see 43.50
Parent code
43.12Site preparationChild codes7
43.12001Earthworks: excavation, landfill, levelling of construction sites, trench digging, rock removal, blasting, etc.43.12002Site preparation for mining: overburden removal and other development and preparation of land and mining sites43.12003Lowering of the water table and drainage of construction sites43.12004Drainage of agricultural or forestry land43.12005Clearing of building sites43.12006Professional user of explosives (eg demolition of buildings, preparation of land or mining sites)43.12007Professional users of other pyrotechnic products (eg signalling device, signalling flares)