1268.0.55.001 - Functional Classification of Buildings, 1999 (Revision 2011)  
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Contents >> The Classification Structure >> Industrial Buildings

3 Industrial Buildings

    Buildings used for warehousing, primary production and the production and assembly activities of industrial or manufacturing processes. This division also includes factories and plants, and buildings used for agricultural and aquacultural activities.

        311 Factories and other secondary production buildings
        321 Warehouses
        331 Agricultural and aquacultural buildings
        391 Industrial buildings n.e.c.

    311 Factories and other secondary production buildings
    Buildings housing, or associated with, production and assembly processes of intermediate and final goods and those converting fuels or environmental energy into electricity. Examples include:
        Abattoir
        Assaying laboratory
        Assembly plant
        Bakery (manufacturing)
        Brewery
        Brick works
        Cannery
        Electricity generation plant buildings
        Factory
        Food processing
        Foundry
        Manufacturing plant
        Mill
        Mint
        Painting shed (manufacturing)
        Printing works
        Refinery
        Ship yard
        Steel works
        Tannery
        Testing laboratories
        Workshop (as part of manufacturing operation)

    321 Warehouses
    Buildings primarily used for the storage of goods, excluding bulk storage of produce and agricultural and aquacultural buildings. Examples include:
        Bulk storage building
        Military store
        Self storage facility
        Storage depots
        Storage shed
        Timberyard shed
        Warehouse

    331 Agricultural and aquacultural buildings
    Buildings housing, or associated with, agricultural and aquacultural activities including bulk storage of produce. Examples include:
        Animal enclosure – covered (agricultural)
        Aquacultural nursery
        Barn - rural
        Cold store
        Drying shed
        Farm shed
        Feed lot building
        Fruit packing shed
        Glasshouse
        Grain storage building
        Growout building
        Hatchery
        Hayshed
        Implement shed
        Milking Pavilion
        Piggery
        Poultry shed
        Rural worker’s accommodation
        Shearer’s quarters
        Shearing shed
        Spawning shed
        Wool shed

    391 Other industrial buildings n.e.c
    Primary production or other industrial buildings not elsewhere classified, such as:
        Boiler house
        Crusher house
        Gas wellhead building (mining)
        Engineer’s hut
        Industrial laboratory (other)
        Mine mess building
        Oil depot (buildings, not tanks)
        Transient mining accommodation


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