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NAICS code 236220: Commercial and Institutional Building Construction

This industry comprises establishments primarily responsible for the construction (including new work, additions, alterations, maintenance, and repairs) of commercial and institutional buildings and related structures, such as stadiums, grain elevators, and indoor swimming facilities. This industry includes establishments responsible for the on-site assembly of modular or prefabricated commercial and institutional buildings. Included in this industry are commercial and institutional building general contractors, commercial and institutional building for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building design-build firms, and commercial and institutional building project construction management firms.

SBA small-business size limit
$45.0M

Is your company small for 236220?

The SBA limit is $45 million average annual receipts.

What 236220 covers

Included

  • Airport building construction
  • Office building construction
  • Arena construction
  • Parking garage construction
  • Barrack construction
  • Prison construction
  • Farm building construction
  • Radio and television broadcast studio construction
  • Fire station construction
  • Grain elevator or bin construction
  • Data center construction
  • Religious building (e.g., church, synagogue, mosque, temple) construction
  • Restaurant construction
  • Hospital construction
  • School building construction
  • Hotel construction
  • Shopping mall construction
  • Indoor swimming facility construction
  • Warehouse construction (e.g., commercial, industrial, manufacturing, private)

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Activities listed under 236220

  • Addition, alteration and renovation, commercial and institutional building
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, commercial warehouse
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, for-sale builders, commercial warehouse
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, for-sale builders, hotel and motel
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, for-sale builders, industrial warehouse
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, commercial and institutional building
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, commercial warehouse
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, hotel and motel
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, general contractors, industrial warehouse
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, hotel and motel
  • Addition, alteration and renovation, industrial warehouse
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  • Administration building construction
  • Airport building construction
  • Airport terminal construction
  • Amusement facility construction
  • Animal shelter and clinic construction
  • Arena construction
  • Armory construction
  • Athletic court, indoor, construction
  • Auditorium construction
  • Bank building construction
  • Barber shop construction
  • Barrack construction
  • Beauty salon construction
  • Broadcasting station construction
  • Bunkhouse construction
  • Bus shelter construction
  • Bus terminal construction
  • Casino construction
  • Cinema construction
  • Civic center construction
  • Clinic construction
  • Cold storage plant construction
  • Commercial building construction
  • Commercial building construction for-sale builders
  • Commercial building construction general contractors
  • Construction management, commercial and institutional building
  • Data center construction
  • Dormitory construction
  • Drycleaning plant construction
  • Educational building construction
  • Farm building construction
  • Fire and flood restoration of commercial and institutional buildings
  • Fire station construction
  • For-sale builders (i.e., building on own land, for sale), commercial and institutional building
  • Garage and service station, commercial, construction
  • Grain bin construction
  • Grain elevator construction
  • Handyman construction service, commercial and institutional building
  • Hangar construction
  • Hatchery construction
  • Health and athletic club construction
  • Hospital construction
  • Hotel construction
  • Ice rink, indoor, construction
  • Indoor swimming pool construction
  • Institutional building construction
  • Institutional building construction for-sale builders
  • Institutional building construction general contractors
  • Jail construction
  • Laboratory construction
  • Library construction
  • Logging camp construction
  • Mausoleum (i.e., building) construction
  • Monument (i.e., building) construction
  • Motel construction
  • Museum construction
  • Office building construction
  • Parking garage construction
  • Penitentiary construction
  • Post office construction
  • Prefabricated commercial building erection
  • Prefabricated institutional building erection
  • Prison construction
  • Public warehouse construction
  • Radio and television broadcast studio construction
  • Radio station construction
  • Railway station construction
  • Recreational facility building construction
  • Religious building (e.g., church, synagogue, mosque, temple) construction
  • Restaurant construction
  • Salon construction
  • School building construction
  • Self-storage facility construction
  • Service station construction
  • Shopping center construction
  • Shopping mall construction
  • Silo construction
  • Speculative builders (i.e., building on own land, for sale), commercial and institutional building
  • Stadium and arena construction
  • Storage elevator construction
  • Store construction
  • Swimming facility, indoor, construction
  • Television station construction
  • Tennis court, indoor, construction
  • Theater construction
  • Truck terminal construction
  • Warehouse construction (e.g., commercial, industrial, manufacturing, private)
  • Warehouse, commercial and institutional, construction
  • Warehouse, industrial, construction

Questions

What is NAICS code 236220?

NAICS 236220 is “Commercial and Institutional Building Construction”. This industry comprises establishments primarily responsible for the construction (including new work, additions, alterations, maintenance, and repairs) of commercial and institutional buildings and related structures, such as stadiums, grain elevators, and indoor swimming facilities.

What businesses use NAICS code 236220?

Examples from the U.S. Census Bureau: Airport building construction; Office building construction; Arena construction; Parking garage construction; Barrack construction; and Prison construction.

What is not included in NAICS 236220?

Businesses mainly constructing structures that are integral parts of utility systems (e.g., storage tanks, pumping stations) or are used to produce products for these systems (e.g., power plants, refineries) are classified in Industry Group 2371, Utility System Construction, based on the type of construction project; performing specialized construction work on commercial and institutional buildings, generally on a subcontract basis are classified in Subsector 238, Specialty Trade Contractors; and manufacturing prefabricated commercial or institutional buildings and assembling/erecting them at the customers' site are classified in Sector 31-33, Manufacturing, based on the primary material (wood, plastic, or metal).

What is the SBA size standard for NAICS 236220?

$45 million average annual receipts (average of the last five fiscal years), including affiliates. Source: 13 CFR 121.201, effective March 17, 2023.

What is the SIC code for NAICS 236220?

SIC codes 1542 (General Contractors - Nonresidential Buildings, Other than Industrial Buildings and Warehouses), 1522 (General Contractors - Residential Buildings Other Than Single-Family, part), 1531 (Operative Builders, part), 1541 (General Contractors Industrial Buildings and Warehouses, part), 1799 (Special Trade Contractors, NEC, part) and 8741 (Management Services, part), from the U.S. Census Bureau concordances (1987 SIC → 2002 NAICS, carried to 2022 NAICS).

What is the IRS business code for NAICS 236220?

236200 (Nonresidential building construction) on Schedule C, line B, from the IRS list of principal business codes. The IRS code covers NAICS 236210, 236220.

How do I find government contracts for NAICS 236220?

Federal agencies put a NAICS code on each solicitation in SAM.gov, and some states and cities use NAICS codes too. Add 236220 to your SAM.gov registration and to your bid alerts; PublicBeam emails new bids for the codes you choose every morning.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS (public domain). PublicBeam is independent and not affiliated with the Census Bureau or any agency. Always check the NAICS code in the official notice before you bid.