Division 81: Services to buildings and landscape activities

Excludes

• provision of on-site management and operation of a client's computer systems and/or data processing facilities, see 62.2062.20
• management of real estate, e.g. property management of real estate or dwellings in joint ownership (mostly carried out on a fee or contract basis), see 68.3268.32
• guard and security service activities, see 80.0180.01
• operation of prisons on a contract or fee basis, see 84.2384.23
• provision of only one of the support services (e.g. general interior cleaning services) or addressing only a single function (e.g. heating), see the appropriate NACE class according to the service provided
• provision of management and operating staff for the complete operation of a client's establishment (e.g. hotel, restaurant, mine, hospital), see the class of the unit operated

Excludes

• specialised cleaning activities (e.g. cleaning of windows, chimneys, fireplaces, boilers, exhaust units), see 81.2281.22

Includes

• general (non-specialised) cleaning of all types of buildings, e.g.:
  • offices
  • private dwellings (e.g. houses or apartments)
  • factories
  • shops
  • institutions
• general (non-specialised) cleaning of other business and professional premises and multi-unit residential buildings
• general (non-specialised) cleaning and clearing activities of cellars, attics and garages
• home cleaning activities

Implementation rule

• These general cleaning activities are mostly interior cleaning although they may include the cleaning of associated exterior areas (for example, windows, passageways).

Excludes

• agricultural pest control, see 01.6101.61
• cleaning of motor vehicles, including car washing, see 95.3195.31

Implementation rule

• The activities included in this category are subdivided in sterilisation activities of medical equipment and other building and industrial cleaning activities n.e.c.

Includes

• sterilisation activities of medical equipment, i.e. sterilisation services of objects (e.g. surgical instruments) and premises (e.g. operating rooms)

Includes

• exterior cleaning of buildings of all types (e.g. offices, factories, shops, schools and other institutions, other business and professional premises, multi-unit residential buildings)
• specialised cleaning activities for businesses in food industries, including manufacturing, retail, restaurants, etc.
• specialised cleaning activities for buildings (e.g. facade and window cleaning, chimney cleaning and cleaning of fireplaces, stoves, furnaces, incinerators, boilers, ventilation ducts and exhaust units)
• specialised industrial cleaning (e.g. cleaning of industrial machinery)
• cleaning of water supply pipelines
• cleaning of aeraulic ducts
• other specialised building and industrial cleaning activities n.e.c.
• cleaning of new buildings immediately after construction
• steam cleaning, sandblasting and similar activities for building exteriors

Excludes

• agricultural pest control, see 01.6101.61
• cleaning of motor vehicles, including car wash, see 95.3195.31

Includes

• sanitising, disinfecting and exterminating activities
• rats exterminating activities

Includes

• street sweeping
• snow and ice removal

Includes

• swimming pool cleaning and maintenance activities
• cleaning of trains, buses, planes etc.
• cleaning of the inside of road and sea tankers
• bottle cleaning
• other cleaning activities n.e.c.

Excludes

• protection or restoration activities of agricultural and forestry land, see divisions 01 and 020102
• commercial growing and planting for commercial growing of plants, trees, see divisions 01 and 020102
• tree nurseries and forest tree nurseries, see 01.30, 02.1001.3002.10
• keeping the land in good environmental condition for agricultural use, see 01.6101.61
• restoration of marine ecosystems, see 03.3003.30
• construction activities for landscaping purposes, see section FF
• landscape design and architectural activities, see 71.1171.11
• operation of national parks, nature reserves etc., including conservation and maintenance, see 91.4291.42

Includes

• landscape gardening; planting
• planting, care and maintenance of parks and gardens for:
  • private and public housing
  • public and semi-public buildings (schools, hospitals, administrative buildings, church buildings etc.)
  • municipal grounds (parks, green areas, cemeteries etc.)
  • highway greenery (roads, train lines and tramlines, waterways, ports)
  • industrial and commercial buildings
• planting, care and maintenance of greenery for:
  • buildings (roof gardens, facade greenery, indoor gardens, etc.)
  • sports grounds (football fields, golf courses, etc.), playgrounds, lawns for sunbathing and other recreational parks
  • stationary and flowing water (basins, alternating wet areas, ponds, swimming pools, ditches, watercourses, plant sewage systems)
• planting of vegetation for protection against noise, wind, erosion, visibility
• protection and restoring landscape (e.g. for parks, gardens)
• ecological engineering works for the purpose of ecological preservation of sites

Also includes

• restoration of natural environments (e.g. plant engineering, renaturation of ecosystems)
• erosion control activities in mountain environments, spawning grounds, and riverbanks
• creation and relocation of species habitats (e.g. nesting boxes, shelters, hibernacula)
• prevention, control and response activities against the introduction and spread of invasive species in fauna or flora
• environmental management (e.g. performing protection and maintenance measures for dunes, moors, wetlands or other sensitive areas; eco-grazing)