Wis. Admin. Code DWD § 290.035

Current through March 24, 2024

Section DWD 290.035 - Classification of projects

(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.

Wis. Admin. Code Department of Workforce Development § DWD 290.035

Cr. Register, September, 1997, No. 501, eff. 10-1-97; r. and recr. Register, July, 2000, No. 535, eff. 8-1-00.

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).