Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00394:body:0:p32
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00394
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 82037–89239

(but testing, maintenance and repair work is not covered if the house has been completed and handed over to the owner with a certificate of occupancy, unless it is fixing defects arising from the construction work)
                                                                                                                                             * Fixing defects as part of the defect liability period after the house has been completed and handed over to the owner.
Rubbish removal                                                                                                                              * Loading trucks, waste bins and rubbish skips with demolition waste.

The prefabrication or testing of elements, at a place specifically established for the construction work, for use in construction work.      * Making concrete panels or roof trusses at the construction site
                                                                                                                                             * Preparing bitumen at a bitumen plant specifically established for road construction work
                                                                                                                                             * Undertaking on-site concrete batch testing
                                                                                                                                             * Making wall frames or roof trusses at the construction site
                                                                                                                                             * Making concrete panels at the construction site
                                                                                                                                             * Undertaking on-site concrete batch testing.
Assembly or disassembly of prefabricated elements on site                                                                                    * Constructing a factory using precast concrete panels
                                                                                                                                             * Dismantling a prefabricated building
                                                                                                                                             * Installing prefabricated power poles
                                                                                                                                             * Installing bridge beams
                                                                                                                                             * Assembling a kit home
                                                                                                                                             * Building housing units using precast concrete panels
                                                                                                                                             * Installing a kitchen made up of prefabricated modules
                                                                                                                                             * Fencing the site off with temporary fencing panels.
Excavation work and site preparation                                                                                                         * Preparatory site clearing, benching or levelling done before construction
                                                                                                                                             * Soil-testing the ground for design purposes before construction of a structure
                                                                                                                                             * Installing an in-ground swimming pool or spa
                                                                                                                                             * Doing excavations while constructing a golf course, house foundations, or basement garage
                                                                                                                                             * Assembling temporary fencing for a building site
                                                                                                                                             * Carrying out remediation excavation work on a contaminated site
                                                                                                                                             * Excavating trenches to install services such as gas and electricity other than for the purpose of testing, maintenance or repair work of a minor nature
                                                                                                                                             * Soil-testing the ground for design purposes before construction
                                                                                                                                             * Temporarily fencing-off the building site.

The installation, testing or maintenance of an essential service in relation to a structure.           * Roughing-in telephone, television and internet cables
                                                                                                       * Major drainage repair works
                                                                                                       * Installing a waste water or grey water recycling system
                                                                                                       * Installing solar heating units
                                                                                                       * Major drainage repair works
                                                                                                       * Installing solar panels.
Work carried out on, under or near water, including work on buoys and obstructions to navigation.      * Dredging to prepare for the erection of a structure
                                                                                                       * Re-piling jetties and piers
                                                                                                       * Building a structure on or near a river, lake or reservoir
                                                                                                       * Driving navigation markers into the seabed
                                                                                                       * Constructing a boat ramp or any other structure over water for a waterfront home
                                                                                                       * Constructing a structure near a swimming pool.

Table 2 Examples of activities that are not considered construction work (see Regulation