General construction of office buildings
Filed accounts
NACE 41002 · financial year 2025 · 132 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 26.1% | 23.4% | 28.3% | 29.5% | 33.2% | 28.5% |
| Median net result | €9,025 | €8,016 | €9,219 | €17,806 | €6,958 | €14,383 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 05-11-2026 | MERSA
BE 0785.757.309 |
| 16-03-2026 | KH Kontractors
BE 0793.602.728 |
| 22-12-2025 | MBI HOME CONCEPT
BE 0804.315.288 |
| 02-07-2025 | DE LEEUW EN PARTNERS
BE 0798.512.413 |
| 29-04-2024 | GROUPE GOFFIN & FILS
BE 0726.937.893 |
| 19-03-2024 | BATICOF
BE 0844.742.316 |
| 14-10-2022 | GROUPE GOFFIN & FILS
BE 0726.937.893 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 261 of 327 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 41 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 41002 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Willemen BouwMechelen 312 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 DE PEUTERHerentals 55.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 MARGEMADilsen-Stokkem 14.0 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 4 EDIBOSUDFernelmont 11.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 E.T.I. CONSTRUCTWavre 7.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 29 companies- 124 Construction 24
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 24
- 102.04 Quarries 1
- 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
- 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 1
- 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 1
- 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 41: Construction of buildings
Related activities
2 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General construction of residential buildings41001 | 29,239 | 2,586 | 453 | 27,616 |
| General construction of other non-residential buildings41003 | 2,409 | 254 | 33 | 5,980 |
Bankruptcies per year in division 41
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 475 | 401 | 499 | 488 | 503 | 340 | 378 | 535 | 676 | 735 | 855 | 592 |
| Jobs lost | 1,555 | 1,162 | 1,238 | 1,363 | 1,084 | 860 | 976 | 1,045 | 1,288 | 1,392 | 1,412 | 1,187 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 41
1,625 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €58,600 | €48,100 to €66,600 | 995 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €62,000 | €53,300 to €70,700 | 498 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €70,900 | €64,300 to €78,800 | 121 |
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Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 41Measured nationally: Of 108,651 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 10 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
25 of the 20,261 companies in NACE division 41 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (5), Luxembourg (5) and Netherlands (5). Together they employ 1,574 of the division's 34,000 FTE: 4.6%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €166.8m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €5.8m paid
- Federal transfers 65.3m amount as published
- EU budget €9.5m attributed share
- EU research €1.8m EU contribution
Insights on General construction of office buildings
Balance sheet and result. Solvency of 28.5% is below Belgium's 46.1%. Return on equity of 18.9% is above Belgium's 15.9%. Liquidity of 1.41 is below Belgium's 1.66.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 1.6% is above Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. 20.2% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 13.5 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 92% of the 87 NACE divisions. Brussels holds 17.8% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 43.3% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 400 of the 403 FTE: 99.2%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 26.1% in financial year 2020 to 28.5% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €9,025 in financial year 2020 to €14,383 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 10-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 41002 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,421 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,557 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.