Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Workforce Development › DWD 290-294 - Public Works Construction Contracts › Chapter DWD 290 - Contracts For Construction Of Public Works › Section DWD 290.035 - Classification of projects

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) BUILDING OR
				HEAVY CONSTRUCTION. A building or heavy construction project includes sheltered
				enclosures with walk-in access for the purpose of housing persons, employees,
				machinery, equipment, or supplies and nonsheltered work such as canals, dams,
				dikes, reservoirs, and storage tanks. A sheltered enclosure need not be
				habitable in order to be considered a building. The installation of machinery
				or equipment, both above and below grade level, does not change a project's
				character as a building. Building or heavy construction includes on-site
				grading, utility work, and landscaping.
Note: Examples of building or heavy construction projects
				  include, but are not limited to, antenna towers; apartment buildings of 5 or
				  more stories; enclosed arenas; athletic fields, excluding all paving work;
				  auditoriums; automobile parking garages or ramps; banks or financial buildings;
				  barracks; bathhouses; indoor or outdoor bleachers; breakwaters; caissons;
				  canals; channels; channel cut-offs; chemical complexes or facilities; churches;
				  city halls; civic centers; cofferdams; coke ovens; commercial or retail
				  buildings; courthouses; dams; demolition; detention facilities or jails; dikes;
				  docks; dormitories; dredging; factories; fire stations; flood control; fueling
				  facilities; gas and oil pipelines; golf courses; grandstands; hospitals;
				  hotels; industrial buildings; industrial incinerators; institutional buildings;
				  irrigation; jetties; kennels; kilns; land drainage; land leveling; land
				  reclamation; landfills; landscaping; laterals; levees; libraries; lift
				  stations, excluding drop-in type; locks; manufacturing plants; marine work;
				  mausoleums; motels; museums; nursing and convalescent facilities; office
				  buildings; oil refineries; out-patient clinics; outdoor electrification;
				  passenger or freight terminals; police stations; ponds; post offices; power
				  plants; prefabricated buildings; pumping stations; railroad construction;
				  reservoirs; rest areas; restaurants; revetments; schools; service stations;
				  shopping centers; shoreline rehabilitation; ski tows; storage tanks, including
				  above ground, below grade, or removal; stores; swimming pools, excluding
				  projects subject to sub. (5); subways; theaters; tipples; unsheltered piers or
				  wharves; viaducts other than state highway or local street; warehouses; water
				  or sewage treatment plants; water towers; waterways; water wells, excluding
				  projects under sub. (5).
(2) SEWER, WATER, OR TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION. A
				sewer, water, or tunnel construction project includes those projects that
				primarily involve public sewer or water distribution, transmission, or
				collection systems and related tunnel work, excluding buildings. Sewer, water,
				or tunnel construction performed within the lot line of a building or heavy
				construction project are subject to sub. (1)
Note: Examples of sewer, water, or tunnel construction
				  projects include, but are not limited to, aqueducts; catch basins; cofferdams;
				  compressed air tunnels; culverts; forcemains; free air tunnels; drop-in lift
				  stations; manholes; marine work; open cut trenches; sanitary sewers; sewage
				  collection or disposal lines; shafts; storm sewers; tunnels, except for
				  subways; water mains; and water supply or distribution lines.
(3) AIRPORT PAVEMENT OR STATE HIGHWAY
				CONSTRUCTION. An airport pavement or state highway construction project
				includes all airport projects and all projects awarded by the Wisconsin
				department of transportation that do not include buildings.
Note: Examples of airport pavement or state highway
				  construction projects include, but are not limited to, airport aprons, runways,
				  or taxiways; base courses; bituminous pavement; brick paving; bridges; concrete
				  pavement; curbs; excavation or embankment for road construction; fencing; grade
				  crossing elimination or separation, such as overpasses or underpasses; guard
				  rails; gutters; landscaping; lighting or traffic control; marine work; medians;
				  parkways; public sidewalks; resurfacing; shoulders; signs; stabilizing courses;
				  and storm sewers, sanitary sewers, or water supply lines incidental to airport
				  pavement or state highway construction.
(4) LOCAL STREET OR MISCELLANEOUS PAVING
				CONSTRUCTION. A local street or miscellaneous paving construction project
				includes roads, streets, alleys, trails, bridges, paths, parking lots and
				driveways that are not subject to sub. (5), public sidewalks, and racetracks.
				Projects awarded by the Wisconsin department of transportation are excluded.
Note: Examples of local street or miscellaneous paving
				  construction projects include, but are not limited to, alleys; athletic field
				  paving work; base courses; bike or bridle paths; bituminous pavement; brick
				  paving; bridges; concrete pavement; curbs; driveways; excavation or embankment
				  for road construction; fencing; grade crossing elimination or separation, such
				  as overpasses or underpasses; guard rails; gutters; landscaping; lighting or
				  traffic control; marine work; medians; parking lots; parkways; public
				  sidewalks; racetracks; recreational trails; resurfacing; roadways; shoulders;
				  signs; and stabilizing courses.
(5) RESIDENTIAL OR AGRICULTURAL CONSTRUCTION.
				A residential or agricultural construction project includes single family
				houses or apartment buildings of no more than 4 stories in height and all
				buildings, structures, or facilities that are primarily used for agricultural
				or farming purposes, excluding commercial buildings. For classification
				purposes, the primary consideration is the exterior height of a residential
				building in stories. Residential or agricultural construction includes all
				incidental items such as site work, driveways, parking lots, private sidewalks,
				swimming pools, and private septic systems or sewer and water laterals
				connected to a public system.
Examples of residential or agricultural construction
					 projects include, but are not limited to, apartment buildings of 4 stories or
					 less, barns, breeding facilities, condominiums of 4 stories or less, convents,
					 cribs, fencing, garages, grain bins, greenhouses that are not incidental to
					 retail, irrigation wells, land clearing, manure pits, nurseries, sheds, silos,
					 single-family houses, stables, storage or outbuildings, student housing of 4
					 stories or less, swimming pools, town or row houses, training, riding or
					 exhibition facilities, and water wells that are not subject to sub. (1).