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Specialised construction activities

NACE 43996
Current registrations632
Starters, 12 months · division 43
11,708
Employment (FTE) · division 43
116,525
Median age · division 43
7.7 years

In NACE division 43, 9.0 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 06-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 43

fiscal year 2025 · median over 45,878 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
46.1%
higher than 57% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€77,895
lower than 71% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€12,553
lower than 61% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
45,878

Foreign control in NACE division 43

67,321 registered companies

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 43

6,843 employers
Median
€61,300
Belgium €61,300
Middle half
€52,300 to €69,700
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
56 of 78
by median staff cost per FTE
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €59,500 €50,500 to €68,000 4,530
10 to 49 FTE €63,900 €55,800 to €71,300 2,076
50 to 249 FTE €69,200 €60,400 to €77,700 208
250 FTE or more €75,500 €70,500 to €82,000 29

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
39
Historical share
6.17%

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 99% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 43 is 0.7%, against 0.2% nationally, over 62,111 scored companies. Comparison: as of 06-10-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 43
Running bankruptcies
2,780
Half have run longer than
22 months
Belgium: 21 months
Longer than three years
31%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 107,695 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 6 October 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 · 447 of 632 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 320 · 71.6%
Wallonia 92 · 20.6%
Brussels 35 · 7.8%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
25-08-2026 BETON MANS
BE 0686.634.195
28-07-2026 SF-Bouw
BE 0899.418.048
06-07-2026 LN CAROCHAPE
BE 0865.501.801
30-06-2026 HASOZ
BE 0730.659.032
18-02-2026 MV Chape
BE 0793.384.972
23-01-2026 BAT ELECTRIC
BE 0674.866.612
12-12-2025 Chape & Isolatiewerken Maes
BE 0757.602.860
11-12-2025 SP CONSTRUCTION
BE 0804.285.396

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 77

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €136.4m awarded 11,301 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 43996 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 43996 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.