The article is devoted to the description of linguistic and stylistic features of the codified Russian language for construction workers. On the basis of the analysis of current Russian textbooks on construction, modern terminology dictionaries on construction, standards and regulatory documents, dissertations and articles devoted to the description of the Russian language for construction workers there have been defined morphological, lexical and syntactic features of the construction language. Considering morphological peculiarities of construction texts, the most common word-formation processes have been revealed and the derived words have been classified according to their meaning. The lexical features of texts on construction, mainly, include the presence of special professional terminology. The examples of construction terms classified according to their meaning are presented in the article. The typical for construction language syntactic constructions have been described, the belonging of construction texts to different substyles of a scientific style has been established. The analysis of the language and stylistic means allows one to determine the belonging of construction texts to the following substyles: scientific-business, academic-scientific, academic-scientific-business, which in turn can help develop methodology models and integrated courses teaching Russian and foreign construction students to professional language more effectively.