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1. Residential - single-family: Includes houses and town houses built to be sold or rented and units built by the owner or for the owner on contract. The classification excludes residential units in buildings that are primarily nonresidential. It also excludes manufactured housing and houseboats.
2. Residential - multi-family: Includes apartments and condominiums. The classification excludes residential units in buildings that are primarily nonresidential. State and local includes remodeling, additions, and major replacements to multi-family properties subsequent to completion of original building as well as construction of additional housing units in existing residential structures, the addition of swimming pools and garages, and replacement of major equipment items such as water heaters, furnaces, and central air-conditioners. Maintenance and repair work is excluded.
3. Office: Office buildings at manufacturing sites are classified as "manufacturing"; however, an office building owned by a manufacturing company and not located at a manufacturing site is classified as "office." General office buildings include administration buildings, computer centers, office buildings, and professional buildings. State and local and federal also includes city halls, borough halls, municipal buildings, courthouses, and state capitol buildings. Financial office buildings include banks, financial institutions, building & loans, saving & loans, and credit unions. Other Office - Also includes motion picture, television, and radio offices.
4. General Commercial Buildings: Includes buildings and structures used by the retail, wholesale and selected service industries, including:
- Automotive, including sales (auto dealerships, motorcycle dealerships, auto showrooms, and truck dealerships), service/parts (auto service centers, auto parts centers, auto repair centers, tire service centers, car washes, car rental centers, gas stations, and emissions testing centers.), and parking (commercial parking lots and garages).
- Food/beverage, including food (supermarkets, bakeries, dairies, markets, convenience stores, and delicatessens), dining/drinking (liquor stores, bars, nightclubs, cafes, diners, restaurants, cafeterias, taverns, inns (eat & drink only), and bistros, fast food (drive-in restaurants and fast food restaurants).
- Multi-retail, including general merchandise (department stores and variety stores), shopping centers (shopping plazas, and town centers), and shopping malls.
- Other Commercial, including beauty salons, nail shops, crematories, funeral homes, animal shelters, kennels, veterinary clinics, florists, nurseries, pawnshops, photo shops, dance schools, dry cleaners, laundromats, and post offices.
- Drug store, including drug stores and pharmacies.
- Building supply store, including hardware stores and lumber yards.
- Other stores, including clothing stores, jewelry stores, salesrooms (non-auto), furniture stores, office supply stores, storerooms, and electronics stores.
- Warehouse, including storage buildings, cold storage plants, grain elevators, and silos located at manufacturing sites are included in the manufacturing category. In addition to the types of warehouses listed below, it also includes grain elevators and greenhouses.
- General commercial, including commercial warehouses, storage warehouses, and distribution buildings.
-Mini-storage, including mini-storage centers and self storage centers.
-Farm includes buildings and structures such as barns, storage houses, smokehouses, and fences; land improvements such as land leveling, terracing, tile drainage; and the construction of ponds, roads and lanes on establishments having annual agricultural sales of $1,000 or more.
5. Healthcare: - Hospitals, including hospitals, mental hospitals, infirmaries, and infrastructure.
- Medical buildings, including clinics, medical offices, medical labs, doctor & dentist offices, outpatient clinics, and research labs (non-manufacturing, non-educational, or non-hospital).
- Special care including nursing homes, hospices, orphan homes, sanatoriums, drug clinics, rehabilitation centers, rest homes, and adult day-care centers.
6. Education:
- Preschool including childcare and day-care centers, nurseries, and preschools.
- Primary/secondary, including elementary, middle, junior high, and high schools, academies, parochial, and vocational schools.
- Higher education including instructional buildings and laboratories; parking lots and garages; administration buildings; dormitories, living/learning centers and residence halls; libraries (school); student union buildings and cafeterias; sports/recreation gymnasiums and athletic field houses, arenas, coliseums and stadiums, outdoor courts or fields, racquetball courts, rinks, tennis courts, and swimming pools; infrastructure (includes power plants, water supply facilities, sewage and other infrastructure), health centers and clinics located at colleges (including junior and community colleges) and universities.
- Other educational, including zoos, arboreta, botanical gardens, planetariums and observatories, art galleries, cultural centers, museums, non-school libraries, archives, nursing schools, cosmetology and beauty schools, trade schools, military training facilities, schools for the handicapped, and modeling schools. Schools on Indian reservations are included in federal construction.
7. Communication: Includes telephone, television, and radio, distribution and maintenance buildings and structures.
8. Manufacturing: Includes all buildings and structures at manufacturing sites. Office buildings and warehouses owned by manufacturing companies but not constructed at a manufacturing site are classified as "office" and "commercial" respectively. Manufacturing sub-categories include: Food/beverage/tobacco, Textile/apparel/leather & allied, Wood, Paper, Print/publishing, Petroleum/coal, Chemical, Plastic/rubber, Nonmetallic mineral, Primary metal, Fabricated metal, Machinery, Computer/electronic/electrical, Transportation equipment, Furniture, Miscellaneous (Examples are medical equipment and supplies, jewelry, sporting goods, toys, and office supplies).
9. Power: Includes solar/photovoltaic and wind generated sources of power.