NACE O81 - Services to Buildings and Landscape Activities

Activities

• Includes: This class includes the provision of a combination of support services within a client's facilities. These services include general interior cleaning, maintenance, trash disposal, guard and security, mail routing, reception, laundry and related services to support operations within facilities. These support activities are performed by operating staff, which is not involved with or responsible for the core business or activities of the client.

• Excludes: Provision of on-site management and operation of a client’s computer systems and/or data processing facilities; 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)); guard and security service activities; operation of prisons on a contract or fee basis; 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.

Activities

General cleaning of buildings:

• 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

Other building and industrial cleaning activities:

• 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 sale, 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

Other cleaning activities:

• Includes: Swimming pool cleaning and maintenance activities; cleaning of trains, buses, planes, etc.; cleaning of the inside of road and sea tankers; sanitising, disinfecting and exterminating activities; bottle cleaning; street sweeping and snow and ice removal; other cleaning activities n.e.c.
• Excludes: Agricultural pest control; cleaning of motor vehicles, including car washing

Activities

• Includes: 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; protecting and restoring landscape (e.g. for parks, gardens); ecological engineering works for the purpose of ecological preservation of sites; 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)
• Excludes: Protection or restoration activities of agricultural and forestry land; commercial growing and planting for commercial growing of plants, trees; activities of tree nurseries and forest tree nurseries; keeping the land in good environmental condition for agricultural use; restoration of marine ecosystems; construction activities for landscaping purposes; landscape design and architectural activities; operation of national parks, nature reserves, etc., including conservation and maintenance