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Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis

NACE 712
Current registrations2,213
Starters, 12 months · division 71
2,938
Employment (FTE) · division 71
51,433
Median age · division 71
9.0 years

In NACE division 71, 7.4 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 51% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 71

fiscal year 2025 · median over 12,262 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
52.3%
higher than 85% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€81,291
lower than 70% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€18,387
higher than 61% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
12,262

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
9
Historical share
0.41%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 75% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 71 is 0.3%, against 0.5% nationally, over 19,164 scored companies. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 1,562 of 2,213 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 1,042 · 66.7%
Wallonia 373 · 23.9%
Brussels 139 · 8.9%
Unknown 8 · 0.5%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
06-07-2026 JADELEC
BE 1015.993.638
03-06-2026 Infrastructure Management Services
BE 0729.851.259
13-04-2026 Ashanti Group
BE 0635.520.244
09-04-2026 Advanced Chromatography Solutions
BE 0627.964.736
05-03-2026 aircokeuring FK
BE 0750.900.358
16-02-2026 Bureau Energie et Coordination
BE 0643.993.490
23-06-2025 AG SYSTEMS
BE 0839.218.858
07-10-2024 SONDEERMEESTER
BE 0686.563.030

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 360

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €162.5m awarded 3,600 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Onderzoeksproject
  • Federal transfers 114.1m amount as published 101 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan het Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut van België. (KMI)
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €263,742 paid 35 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • EU budget €306.0m attributed share 110 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €322.7m eu contribution 152 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · 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 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 712 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 71, not NACE 712 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.