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Specialised construction activities

NACE 43992
Current registrations789
Starters, 12 months · division 43
12,046
Employment (FTE) · division 43
120,079
Median age · division 43
7.7 years

In NACE division 43, 9.3 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 67% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 29-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 43

fiscal year 2025 · median over 38,297 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
46.2%
higher than 59% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€79,714
lower than 72% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€12,236
lower than 61% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
38,297

Foreign control in NACE division 43

67,357 registered companies

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 43

2,324 employers of at least 10 FTE
Median
€64,200
Belgium €65,100
Middle half
€55,800 to €71,800
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
51 of 73
by median staff cost per FTE
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
10 to 49 FTE €63,500 €55,300 to €71,000 2,085
50 to 249 FTE €69,100 €60,400 to €76,900 210
250 FTE or more €74,900 €70,500 to €82,000 29

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
27
Historical share
3.42%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 94% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 43 is 1.1%, against 0.5% nationally, over 62,023 scored companies. Comparison: as of 29-09-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 43
Running bankruptcies
2,759
Half have run longer than
21 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
31%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 64,419 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 46% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 32% after liquidation, 4% were withdrawn; 18% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 49 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 29 September 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.

Outcome by court and division

Regional split

by region · 343 of 789 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 216 · 63.0%
Wallonia 96 · 28.0%
Brussels 31 · 9.0%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
21-09-2026 Sole trader
BE 0825.763.473 · Westerlo
15-09-2026 Sole trader
BE 0644.833.828 · Heuvelland
11-08-2026 Sole trader
BE 0780.683.219 · Ukkel
22-07-2026 PRO FILERS
BE 0447.494.454
15-07-2026 CLEAN-ECHAF
BE 0840.403.347
29-06-2026 Sole trader
BE 0524.659.043 · Zedelgem
04-03-2026 Ecofaçades
BE 0750.688.542
07-01-2026 YENTUR CLEANING
BE 0464.030.281

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 64

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €136.4m awarded 11,306 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Dienstencheques
  • Federal transfers 16.4m amount as published 16 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelagen OCMW's recht op maatschappelijke integratie
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €933,621 paid 4 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • EU budget €97.9m attributed share 31 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Linked to buildings
  • EU research €10.3m eu contribution 18 recipients · 2010 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2008 nomenclature, the one in which code 43992 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 43, not NACE 43992 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.