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Land surveying

Current registrations 1,740division 71: 39,536
Starters, 12 months 593.4 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 31.7 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 70678 employers · latest accounts
Median age 15.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 86.7%1,508 of 1,740 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 71122 · financial year 2025 · 767 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
48.1%
division 50.9% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€16,384
division €18,853 · Belgium €16,492
Median equity
€88,723
division €83,891 · Belgium €98,323
Loss-making
21.0%
division 21.3% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
7.3%
division 8.5% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
16.9%
division 20.7% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.73
division 1.94 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
33.8%
financial year 2024, 751 filings · division 33.6% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
3.1%
of 800 companies with annual accounts · division 3.5% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 47.0%48.2%46.2%48.4%49.2%48.1%
Median net result €14,741€18,114€17,148€16,189€16,909€16,384

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
9
0.52% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
12
6.9 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
05-11-2026 Associated Landsurveyors Oost
BE 0830.133.027
05-08-2026 ECO BATI PROJECT
BE 0888.884.838
26-02-2026 De Prekel, Bavo
BE 0842.509.732 · sole trader · Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
08-01-2026 DENOOZ GEOMETRE
BE 0440.744.937
25-06-2025 Landmeter Raf Ernots
BE 0820.537.450
28-06-2024 SOLAGEO
BE 0775.756.510
20-03-2024 Berne, Loïc
BE 0761.730.211 · sole trader · Onhaye
05-12-2022 BEWester
BE 0558.942.011

Every bankruptcy in division 71, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 985 of 1,740 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 630 · 64.0%
  • Wallonia 278 · 28.2%
  • Brussels 75 · 7.6%
  • Abroad 2 · 0.2%
fewer moremax 167

Largest employers

NACE 71122 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 EVOLTA ENGINEERSBrussels 71.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 Landmeterskantoor Van EesterBoechout 43.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 FEYSPoperinge 36.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 GlobeZenit WallonieChaudfontaine 31.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 GLOBEZENITBeringen 30.1 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 178 companies
  • 336 Liberal professions 111
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 54
  • 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 15
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 5
  • 124 Construction 2
  • 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 144 Agriculture 1
  • 145 Horticulture 1
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  • 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 1
  • 307 Insurance brokers and agencies 1
  • 341 Intermediation in banking and investment services 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 71: Architecture and engineering

Related activities

5 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Activities of building architects71111 18,228 1,013 24 2,072
Engineering and related technical consultancy, excluding land surveyors71121 11,525 1,080 34 24,114
Activities of interior architects71112 3,882 279 19 426
Urban planning and landscape architecture71113 2,242 197 6 292
Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis71119 38 20 0 -

Bankruptcies per year in division 71

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies12487729411276799710811499102
Jobs lost219137116183170149128211180181209184

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 71

1,479 employers
Median
€70,400
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€56,300 to €86,200
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
24 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €64,700 €50,700 to €79,300 947
10 to 49 FTE €77,600 €65,400 to €90,000 384
50 to 249 FTE €80,300 €72,600 to €102,800 124
250 FTE or more €90,000 €84,100 to €107,600 24

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 71
Number
205
Half have run longer than
20 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
39%
Belgium: 31%

Measured 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.

Outcome by court and division

95 of the 20,647 companies in NACE division 71 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (18), Netherlands (17) and Luxembourg (13). Together they employ 8,572 of the division's 39,238 FTE: 22%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €153.6m awarded 3,590 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €263,742 paid 35 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • Federal transfers 175.0m amount as published 112 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelage aan de IVZW MYRRHA. Constructie fase 1 - MINERVA
  • EU budget €305.8m attributed share 109 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €325.1m EU contribution 154 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Land surveying

Balance sheet and result. 7.3% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. 21.0% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 15.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. In 12 months, 3.4 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 83% of the 87 NACE divisions. Wallonia holds 28.3% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 33.8% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 213 of the 706 FTE: 30.2%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 47.0% in financial year 2020 to 48.1% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €14,741 in financial year 2020 to €16,384 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 71122 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.