Description of the activity

The demolition and wrecking of buildings, roads and runways, railways, bridges, tunnels, waste water treatment works, water treatment works, pipelines, wells and boreholes, power-generating plants, chemical plants, dams and reservoirs, mines and quarries, offshore structures, near shore works, ports, waterway works or land formation and reclamation [See activities listed by the International Cost Management Standard in the 'ICMS: Global Consistency in Presenting Construction Life Cycle Costs and Carbon Emissions 3rd edition, Table 1: ICMS Projects with their corresponding codes’.].

For projects associated with the activities 'Construction of New Buildings’ or 'Renovation of existing buildings’ (see Sections 3.1 and 3.2 of this Annex), where the demolition works and the construction or renovation works are procured under the same contract, the technical screening criteria for the construction or renovation activities apply.

The economic activity does not include the demolition and wrecking of buildings and other structures carried out as part of the activity 'Remediation of contaminated sites and areas’ (see Section 2.4 of Annex III).

The economic activities in this category could be associated with NACE code F43.1 in accordance with the statistical classification of economic activities established by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006.

Technical screening criteria

Substantial contribution to the transition to a circular economy