In recent years, the construction sphere in the Russian Federation has undergone special, major transformations. The Institute of Self-regulating Organizations was established, advanced technical regulations and rules have been introduced and law-makers changed their approach to the system of protective legal relations. As a result, a scientific and practical approach to the mechanism of legal regulation of the construction industry has changed. The construction industry is described by the authors as a complex process that, to some extent, involves establishment, expansion and improvement of new facilities, buildings and other objects. When offenses in the construction industry are committed, the most common measure of administrative punishment is administrative suspension of activities which, within the framework of the construction industry, can act as both an administrative warning and administrative preventive measure. However, in proceedings that involve administrative offenses in the sphere of construction in cases determined by the law interim measures can be applied, the most important and significant among them is a temporary prohibition of activities. The study not only reveals essential problems of using this measure in practice, but it also draws special attention to possible ways of improving its practical application to the offenses in the construction industry.