Industrial Activity Classifications
Code Name Code Name Code Name IC10 Power Generation x-Renewables IC1010 Independent Power Producers IC101010 Nuclear Power Generation IC101020 Gas-Fired Power Generation IC101030 Coal-Fired Power Generation IC101040 Combined Heat and Power Generation IC101050 Other Fossil-Fuel-Fired Power Generation IC1020 Independent Water and Power Producers IC102010 Power and Water Production IC20 Environmental Services IC2010 Waste Treatment IC201010 Non-Hazardous Waste Treatment IC201020 Hazardous Waste Treatment IC201030 Waste-to-Power Generation IC201040 Waste incineration IC201050 Gaseous Waste Treatment IC2020 Water Supply and Treatment IC202010 Potable Water Treatment IC202020 Industrial Water Treatment IC202030 Sea Water Desalination IC202040 Water Supply Dams IC2030 Wastewater Treatment IC203010 Residential Wastewater Treatment and Reuse IC203020 Industrial Wastewater Treatment and Reuse IC2040 Environmental Management IC204010 Flood Control IC204020 Coastal and Riverine Locks IC204030 Energy Efficiency IC204040 Carbon Capture IC30 Social Infrastructure IC3010 Defence Services IC301010 Strategic Transport and Refuelling IC301020 Training Facilities IC301030 Barracks and Accommodation IC3020 Education Services IC302010 Schools (Classes and Sports Facilities) IC302020 Universities (Classes, Labs, Administration Buildings) IC302030 Student Accommodation IC3030 Government Services IC303010 Police Stations and Facilities IC303020 Courts of Justice IC303030 Prisons IC303040 Street Lighting IC303050 Social Accommodation IC303060 Government Buildings and Office Accommodation IC3040 Health and Social Care Services IC304010 Hospitals IC304020 Clinics IC304030 Residential and Assisted Living IC304040 Crematorium IC3050 Recreational Facilities IC305010 Stadiums and Sports Centres IC305020 Public Parks and Gardens IC305030 Convention and Exhibition Centres IC305040 Arts, Libraries, and Museums IC40 Energy and Water Resources IC4010 Natural Resources Transportation Companies IC401010 Gas Pipeline IC401020 Oil Pipeline IC401030 Water Pipeline IC401040 Wastewater Pipeline IC401050 LNG Ships IC4020 Energy Resource Processing Companies IC402010 Liquefied Natural Gas - Liquefaction IC402020 Liquefied Natural Gas - Regasification IC402030 Crude Oil Refinery IC402040 Bioethanol Fuel IC4030 Energy Resource Storage Companies IC403010 Gas Storage IC403020 Liquid Storage IC403030 Other Storage IC403040 Floating Storage Units - FSU IC50 Data Infrastructure IC5010 Data Transmission IC501010 Cell towers IC501020 Long-Distance Cables IC501030 Communication Satellites IC501040 Radio and media towers IC5020 Data Storage IC502010 Data Centres IC60 Transport IC6010 Airport Companies IC601010 Airport IC6020 Car Park Companies IC602010 Car Park IC6030 Port Companies IC603010 Tool Port IC603020 Bulk Goods Port IC603030 Container Port IC603040 Other Port IC6040 Rail Companies IC604010 Heavy Rail Lines IC604020 High Speed Rail Lines IC604030 Freight Rail Rolling Stock IC604040 Passenger Rail Rolling Stock IC6050 Road Companies IC605010 Motorways IC605020 Motorway Network IC605030 Dual-Carriage way roads IC605040 Stand-Alone Tunnels IC605050 Stand-Alone Bridges IC6060 Urban Commuter Companies IC606010 Urban Light-Rail IC606020 Underground Mass Transit IC606030 Overground Mass Transit IC606040 Bus Transportation IC70 Renewable Power IC7010 Wind Power Generation IC701010 On-Shore Wind Power Generation IC701020 Off-Shore Wind Power Generation IC7020 Solar Power Generation IC702010 Photovoltaic Power Generation IC702020 Thermal Solar Power IC7030 Hydroelectric Power Generation IC703010 Hydroelectric Dam Power Generation IC703020 Hydroelectric Run-of-River Power IC703030 Pumped Hydroelectric storage IC7040 Other Renewable Power Generation IC704010 Biomass Power Generation IC704020 Geothermal Power Generation IC704030 Wave Power Generation IC7050 Other Renewable Technologies IC705010 Battery storage IC705020 Off-Shore Transmission (OFTO) IC705030 Thermal storage IC7060 Hydrogen power generation IC706010 Hydrogen-fired power generation IC706020 Hydrogen fuel cells IC706030 Hydrogen storage IC80 Network Utilities IC8010 Electricity Distribution Companies IC801010 Electricity Distribution Network IC8020 Electricity Transmission Companies IC802010 Electricity Transmission Network IC8030 District Cooling/Heating Companies IC803010 District Cooling/Heating Network IC8040 Water and Sewerage Companies IC804010 Water and Sewerage Network IC8050 Gas Distribution Companies IC805010 Gas Distribution Network IC8060 Data Distribution Companies IC806010 Data Distribution Network IC8070 Smart metering Companies IC807010 Smart metering network
SuperClass and Class-Level Definitions
Code Definition Code Definition IC10 Stand-alone power generation using a range of technologies except wind, solar, and other renewable sources. IC1010 Independent power producers (IPP) provide electricity to power distribution and transmission companies or directly to industrial or commercial clients. IC1020 Independent water and power producers (IWPP) are power producers with a colocated water-desalination or filtration facility. Industrial, potable, or ultra-pure water is typically a by-product of the power generation process. IC20 Companies involved in the treatment of water, wastewater, and solid waste for sanitation and reuse purposes. IC2010 Waste treatment services include the collection and disposal of solid refuse from residential, commercial, or industrial sources. IC2020 Stand-alone water treatment companies produce water for various uses, including residential, commercial, and industrial end users. IC2030 Stand-alone wastewater treatment companies treat wastewater from residential, commercial, and industrial sources to a certain discharge or reuse standard. IC2040 Environmental management companies invest in projects that conserve natural resources, protect habitats, and control hazards. IC30 Companies involved in the delivery of support and accommodation services for public or other services. IC3010 Defence infrastructure companies provide noncombatant support services to public-sector military organisations, including strategic transport, training facilities, and telecommunications. IC3020 Infrastructure companies providing education services through the development and maintenance of school and university buildings and related facilities for the use of public or private institutions. IC3030 Infrastructure companies providing support and accommodation services to government departments and other public-sector organisations and agencies. IC3040 Healthcare infrastructure companies provide support service and facilities to public- or private-sector medical treatment units. IC3050 Convention, entertainment, and recreational facilities infrastructure companies deliver and maintain various large-scale leisure facilities typically requiring a bespoke structural-engineering component. IC40 Companies involved in the treatment and delivery of natural resources. IC4010 Pipeline companies develop and operate high-pressure transmission pipelines. IC4020 Energy natural resource processing companies transform crude oil, natural gas, and other commodities into various derivative or transformed products. IC4040 Energy natural resource storage companies provide storage services to private and public clients by exploiting large natural caverns or buildings and maintaining over- or underground tanks. IC50 Companies involved in the provision of telecommunication and data infrastructure. IC5010 Data transmission companies involved in the construction, operation, and maintenance of data transmission assets including telecommunications towers, land or sea based long-distance communication cables, and communication satellites. IC5020 Data storage companies involved in the development, operation, and maintenance of physical data storage infrastructure. This does not include companies that offer data storage in addition to other products. IC60 Companies involved in the provision of transportation infrastructure services. IC6010 Airport companies build, maintain, and operate airport terminals, runways, and associated support and logistical services. Large airports also lease property for commercial and retail purposes. IC6020 Car park service companies provide individual and commercial end users with vehicle-parking facilities. They are relatively small-scale structures built over- and underground mostly within large urban areas. IC6030 Port infrastructure companies build, maintain, and operate port jetties, passenger terminals, and freight transit and storage facilities. IC6040 Rail companies provide long-distance, intercity passenger and freight services. IC6050 Road companies build, maintain, and operate roads and motorways including bridges and tunnels. IC6060 Urban commuter companies build, maintain, and operate urban rail routes from light (tramway) to mass-transit rail tracks, including over- and underground rail lines. IC70 Stand-alone power generation and transmission companies using wind, solar, hydro and other renewable energy sources. Also energy storage companies. IC7010 Wind power companies produce electricity using wind power to operate various types of electromagnetic turbines. IC7020 Solar power companies produce electricity by capturing solar radiation using a range of solar-cell technologies. IC7030 Hydroelectric power generating companies use water to produce electricity. This can either be from a dam or from a river. IC7040 Other renewable power generation companies using various physical phenomena or alternative renewable fuels (other than the wind, sun, or hydro) to generate electricity. IC7050 Other renewables technology companies use a variety of different methods to provide, store and transmit renewable energy. IC7060 Hydrogen fired power generating companies that use hydrogen as a fuel. In which the fuel was produced through the electrolysis process. Further involves infrastructure in containing hydrogen through a common method of pressurized storage. IC80 Companies operating an infrastructure network with natural monopoly characteristics (barriers to entry, increasing returns to scale). IC8010 Electricity distribution companies distribute medium-voltage electricity to final consumers. IC8020 Electricity transmission companies transmit relatively high-voltage electricity from the point of generation source to a distribution network. IC8030 Heating or cooling companies provide service in urban areas using combined heat and power to recycle or reuse waste heat. IC8040 Water and sewerage companies provide potable water treatment and distribution services as well as the collection, treatment, and disposal of wastewater and sewerage. IC8050 Gas distribution companies operate low-pressure pipeline networks delivering natural gas to end residential, commercial, and industrial consumers. IC8060 Data distribution companies involve in provision of essential data network especially to sectors of economy (e.g. financial systems, industrial supply chain, public utilities, etc) through utilisation of fiber networks, cell towers, data centers and other data infrastructure. IC8070 A metering system that monitors and records the utility consumption in a building or area. It usually consists of networked meters built together with sensors and controllers.
SubClass-Level Definitions
Code Definition IC101010 Nuclear power plants heat water in producing steam using nuclear reactors combined with the Rankine cycle. It is a nuclear fission process whereby the steam is used to spin large turbines that generate electricity. IC101020 Gas-fired power plants that utilise Open-cycle gas turbine (OCGT) and Combined Cycle gas turbine (CCGT) technologies. OCGT plants burn natural gas to create a pressurised gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine to extract energy in the form of electricity.While CCGT plants employ both gas turbine and steam turbines in combination to maximise electricity output where it uses the resulting waste heat from the gas turbine to produce steam to run the steam turbine. IC101030 Coal-fired plants where coal is pulverized and injected into a boiler and burned to produce steam that flows into a turbine that spins a generator to generate electricity. IC101040 Cogeneration power plant that concurrently generates electricity and thermal energy used for a district or industrial heating from a single fuel source. IC101050 Power plant where crude oil and gaseous fuels other than natural gas are used to generate electricity. IC102010 Power producers with a co-located water-desalination or filtration facility. Industrial, potable, or ultra-pure water is typically a by-product of the power generation process. IC201010 Waste treatment facilities that treat common residential, commercial and industrial waste that is considered non-hazardous in solid or non-solid states. The facilities include landfills, transfer stations, compost facilities, recyclers, and processors. IC201020 Waste treatment facilities that are meant for hazardous waste originating from residential, commercial or industrial sources whereby the treatment involves chemical, biological and physical methods. The facilities also have a safety containment system for temporary storage before landfill disposal. IC201030 Power plants that burn solid waste at a high temperature to produce superheated steam that drives generators to produce electricity. IC201040 A plant that incinerates waste through a moving grate, rotary kiln, thermal oxidizers for gases, fumes, and liquid waste. The types of waste include residential, hazardous, medical, and many others. No electricity as by-product. IC201050 Waste treatment facilities that treat gaseous waste via thermal and dry or wet gas treatment. IC202010 A water treatment facility that removes impurities in the raw water collected from a lake, reservoir or river to produce water that is consumable for humans. Water flows into the tank, where coagulation, flocculation, and clarification, followed by sedimentation, occur. IC202020 Industrial wastewater treatment is used to treat contaminated waters by industrial activities before it can be reused or release into the environment. IC202030 A facility that removes salt and other elements from water in order to generate clean water. Typically, it separates water molecules from seawater using reverse osmosis technology. IC202040 A water dam is a structure built across a river or a stream used to supply water for agriculture, industrial uses and household uses. IC203010 Residential wastewater treatment facility employed to reduce contamination level for reuse. Those include Constructed wetlands, biogas settlers, anaerobic baffled reactors, septic tanks, leach fields, evapo-transpiration beds, and surface or subsurface groundwater recharge. IC203020 Companies that employ Industries wastewater purification and recycle for reuse through methods such as sedimentation, aerobic biological treatment, oxidation ponds, biological nutrient removal and disinfection. IC204010 Drainage infrastructure system to hold rainwater in order to prevent urban flooding. This includes temporary rainwater storage tanks and drains and canals. The flood control infrastructure also includes temporary flood barriers such as sheet-piling or raised embankments in flood-prone areas. IC204020 Lock systems that protect marine habitats, control connectivity between rivers and their tributaries and barriers that keep seawater out at the coastal for flood protection IC204030 Energy efficient infrastructure that helps reduce energy demand, while improving energy efficiency and prioritizing emission reductions IC204040 Carbon capture facility refer to point-source carbon capture from the energy, industrial and manufacturing processes. The captured carbon is transported via pipeline to underground carbon dioxide storage in geological formations or reusing it for other purposes. IC301010 Provision of defence services by a facility in strategic transport and refuelling aircraft. IC301020 Buildings, facilities and grounds that are used by defence forces for military training. IC301030 Army barracks and provision of defence living accommodation. IC302010 Buildings with facilities necessary for instructional for primary and secondary students and have the related supporting purposes including classrooms, libraries, cafeterias and physical sport spaces. IC302020 Buildings with facilities necessary for instructional for tertiary students and have the related supporting purposes including classrooms, libraries, cafeterias and physical sport spaces. IC302030 Dormitories for students to live in, with residential quarters for large number of students. IC303010 Buildings with office spaces available to officers, detectives and administrative employees and has other related facilities, including cells for detainers. IC303020 Buildings and facilities for provision of judicial system. IC303030 Secure confinement of people who have been convicted or charged with crimes and in removing them from free society. IC303040 Streetlights that provide source of light along public roads, back lanes and service roads. IC303050 Public housing whereby it is meant for lower-income households to rent and acquire. It is usually set at a fairly low cost by organisations such as the local council. IC303060 Buildings used for governmental purposes and manage government agencies’ office accommodation needs. IC304010 A building that is used to house one or more wards with beds for inpatients and health facilities with medical equipment and device for nursing care, treatment to a patient, and other healthcare services. IC304020 A facility or hospital department where outpatients get medical treatment or consultation, from general medical care to specialist services. IC304030 Nursing homes for people who need daily care and primary provision of health and personal care services. IC304040 A building with facilities including a cremation furnace and chamber. IC305010 It is a venue with a field or stage surrounded by tiers of seats that house a large scale of spectators for sports events, concerts or other events. IC305020 An area designed for active or passive public recreational use. IC305030 A large building with exhibition facilities and halls designed exclusively for convention and exhibition. IC305040 Buildings with collections of literature, history of arts and architecture and provision of services for visitors and students. IC401010 An infrastructure composed of pipes that transport extracted natural gas from the point where natural gas was extracted to the point where it was processed or delivered to the starting point of the distribution system. IC401020 Pipelines that move crude oil production from wells to central stations for further handling. It includes pipelines that deliver oil to larger transmission pipelines transporting their products to refineries and export facilities. IC401030 An infrastructure of high-pressure and long-distance water conveyance pipelines used to move water to serve urban and agricultural users from major sources of water. IC401040 Pipelines that collect wastewater produced at production sites and pumps it at high pressure to remote storage or a disposal site. IC401050 Ship vessel equipped with containment systems carrying LNG in bulk. The system has heavy-insulated, temperature-controlled tanks that ensure the LNG is kept in a liquid state, enabling gas transportation between the liquefaction plant and the regasification site. IC402010 LNG facilities where the natural gas is processed and treated through the gas liquefaction cycle, before storage or transportation. IC402020 Facilities that convert the liquefied natural gas back to a gaseous state by using a heat exchanger with sea water as a heat medium to increase the heat of the natural gas to change it from liquid to a gaseous state. IC402030 An oil refinery is an industrial plant that transforms or refines crude oil into various usable petroleum products. The process involves distillation, cracking and reforming. IC402040 A type of fuel that is derived from plant material. In most cases, this means that the fuel is made from corn or other types of grain. The plant material is fermented using a fermentation tank and then distilled to create the final product. IC403010 Natural gas is typically held underground in three types of reservoirs: depleted oil and gas fields, depleted aquifers, and in salt beds and salt caverns. IC403020 Liquid terminals and above-ground storage tank facilities are interconnected with and used to store natural resources in liquid form. IC403030 Storage facilities for natural resources other than liquid and gas. IC403040 Floating terminal with storage facilities for LNG. IC501010 A short structure that houses equipment for transmitting and receiving radio signals between a cell phone and a network. The equipment at a cell tower site includes a tower, equipment shelter, generator, and battery backup. IC501020 Long distance cables on land and subsea cables where fibre optic cables connect countries across the world via cables typically buried underground or laid on the seabed. IC501030 Satellite companies own and operate individual or constellations of commercial or military satellites to serve various private- or public-sector clients IC501040 A tall structure usually have large antennas on top to enable the transmission of radio waves over long distances for television and radio stations. IC502010 A dedicated physical facility that used by enterprises to store and share applications and data. IC601010 Airport companies build, maintain, and operate airport terminals, runways, and associated support and logistical services. Large airports also lease property for commercial and retail purposes. IC602010 Building or space designated for parking. It can be in the form of attendant facility, metered facility, or operated by means of automatic parking gates. IC603010 A port model where port infrastructure companies leases both the port infrastructure and superstructure assets from the authority and provides services to 3rd parties. The assets are owned, developed and maintained by the port authority. IC603020 Industrial port that has all the facilities required for the storage and transhipment of bulk cargo. IC603030 It is a facility where cargo containers are transhipped between different types of transport vehicles - for example, container vessel to container trucks or trains. IC603040 Ports other than tool port, bulk goods port and container port. IC604010 Long-distance heavy rail tracks out to the suburbs or between the cities. IC604020 Long-distance tracks with dedicated electrification, grade separated from roads and other railroads that allow rail transportation to at higher speed than traditional rail traffic. IC604030 Railway vehicles in both powered and unpowered vehicles usually in the form of rail freight locomotives and heavy-haul wagons. IC604040 Coaches that designed to carry passengers on a railway. IC605010 The motorway connects two or more important cities, and usually, the traffic is uninterrupted without traffic signals. It allows vehicles to travel at high speed, and it is common in two lanes per side of the road and has tollgates as motorways charge tolls. IC605020 A network of roads with inter-city features that have a number of lanes and connect different towns and cities with intersecting roads via traffic lights is a system of highways in any country. IC605030 Divided highway which multiple lanes with traffic going in opposite direction. IC605040 Underground passageway purposed to connect passage under a mountain or river and divert traffic from congested urban areas. IC605050 A structure spanning and providing passage over a gap or barrier, such as river or roadway. Types of bridges include arch bridge, beam bridge, girder bridge, cable stayed bridge and truss bridge. IC606010 A system of tramway tracks and powered by overhead electrical wires and used for medium-capacity local transportation in metropolitan areas. IC606020 Underground railway system within suburban areas. IC606030 Overground railway system within suburban areas. IC606040 A bus rapid transit system that runs within the metropolitan area. The infrastructure assets include stations, terminals and bus fleet. IC701010 Onshore wind energy is generated by wind turbines that are located on land and use the wind occurring in terrestrial locations. IC701020 Offshore wind energy that relies on the power of the wind at sea, where it has greater speed and is more consistent due to the lack of barriers. Megastructures, seated atop the seabed and equipped with turbines, are utilized to harness this powerful resource. IC702010 Uses Photovoltaic (PV) panels that convert sunlight into electricity energy. A photovoltaic (PV) system is composed of one or more solar panels combined with an inverter, a mounting apparatus (Racking) and other electrical and mechanical hardware that use energy from the Sun to generate electricity. IC702020 Solar thermal energy generation that collect and concentrate sunlight to produce the high temperature heat needed to generate electricity. IC703010 Power station that has turbines relying on gravity flow of water from the dam to generate electricity. IC703020 Power station that harness the energy from a flowing river to generate electricity. IC703030 Hydroelectric energy storage facilities that store energy via interconnected reservoirs with one at a lower elevation. IC704010 Power facilities that convert biomass waste, logging residue or agriculture to energy through processes of direct combustion to create heat in generating electricity. IC704020 Power plants that uses geothermal energy to generate electricity via flash system, binary cycle system or dry steam system. IC704030 Facilities that generate electricity from harnessing the wave energy from oceans. IC705010 Storage devices enable energy from renewables, like solar and wind, to be stored and released when the users require it. IC705020 Electrical transmission assets that connect offshore wind farms to the onshore electricity network. IC705030 Energy storage system that store thermal energy to be used later. It operates by means of heating or cooling a media such as water tank. IC706010 Power plants that generate electricity from the hydrogen fuel cells. IC706020 Electricity from renewable sources will be fed into an electrolyser with water to make green hydrogen. Where the hydrogen fuel will be compressed, stored, and sold for use as a carbon-free fuel. IC706030 Storage facilities that store hydrogen in either gas or liquid forms through means such as salt caverns and pipe storage. IC801010 Distribution lines are low-voltage power lines that transport energy from substations to residences, businesses, and other end users. The lines are shorter and span less distance. IC802010 Transmission power lines connect power plants to substations at a high voltage. Transmission lines can transport electricity from one end of the country to the other using interstate connections. IC803010 A heating network generates and distributes heat in the form of hot water and superheated steam using one or more generating units. While district cooling refers to a cooling network in a centralized system that provides chilled water to supply an air conditioning system. IC804010 Water is delivered to end consumers via a network of pipelines, mains, and pumping stations, and is stored in a system of urban water service reservoirs. While sewerage systems are made up of service branch lines from the end users, which feed into reticulation mains. The mains feed into pump stations and trunk sewers, which then lead to treatment plants. IC805010 Gas distribution deals with the medium and low pressure gas mains that convey gas to end customers by a distribution utility. IC806010 Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network whereby a network that connects telecom facilities with the end-users over optical fibre to provide communication signals. IC807010 Smart meter assets installed in the distribution grids to improve energy and gas management and reduce carbon emissions. And water meters in homes and businesses to measure water consumption and encourage water conservation.