4312 Site preparation


Corresponding CPA codes

  • 43.12.1 Site preparation works
  • 43.12.11 Soil and land preparation works; clearance works

    This subcategory includes:

    • preparation works for agricultural land
    • preparation works for making sites ready for subsequent construction works, including blasting and rock removal works
    • preparation works for mining: overburden removal and other development and preparation works of mineral properties and sites, including tunnelling, except for oil and gas extraction
    • site clearance, clearance of undergrowth
    • soil stabilisation
    • horizontal drillings for the passage of cables or drainpipes
    • digging of trenches for site drainage

    This subcategory excludes:

    • drilling services incidental to petroleum and natural gas extraction, see 09.10.11
    • water well drilling, see 42.21.24
  • 43.12.12 Excavating and earthmoving works

    This subcategory includes:

    • digging of trenches, for utilities, urban drainage, various roadworks etc.
    • digging of conventional ditches for various constructions
    • contaminated top soil stripping works
    • land re-creation works
    • large-scale earthworks, excavations, sloping, earthmoving works in making embankments or cuttings, prior to highway construction (roads, motorways, railways etc.)
    • other excavating and earthmoving works n.e.c.