Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 71 · financial year 2025 · 16,432 filed annual accountsStaff cost per FTE in NACE division 71
1,482 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €64,500 | €50,700 to €79,300 | 947 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €77,600 | €65,300 to €90,500 | 387 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €80,300 | €72,600 to €102,700 | 124 |
| 250 FTE or more | €90,000 | €84,100 to €107,600 | 24 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 02-10-2026 | BDMB
BE 0764.825.006 |
| 14-07-2026 | Enairko
BE 0801.310.169 |
| 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 |
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 71Measured nationally: Of 108,424 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entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn.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 2 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.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 1,543 of 2,210 enterprises with a registered office on file- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Unknown
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 71 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Daikin Europe N.V.Ostend 1,724 FTEfinancial year 2026
- 2 SGS BELGIUMAntwerp 1,395 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 TRACTEBEL ENGINEERINGBrussels 1,326 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 VINCOTTEVilvoorde 973 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 ARCADIS BELGIUMBrussels 775 FTEfinancial year 2025
95 of the 20,641 companies in NACE division 71 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (18), Netherlands (17) and Luxembourg (13). Together they employ 8,554 of the division's 39,487 FTE: 22%, against 15% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €162.4m awarded
- Federal transfers 175.0m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €263,742 paid
- EU budget €306.0m attributed share
- EU research €322.9m eu contribution
Insights on Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis
The number of starters per 100 companies in NACE division 71 is lower than that of 53% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure.
This sector's historical share is lower than that of 72% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure.
The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 71 is 0.1%, against 0.2% for Belgium as a whole. It is computed over 19,155 scored companies.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 01-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 7120 exists.
The historical share is the share of current registrations for which a bankruptcy opening was published in the past five years. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors. The historical share is not a future bankruptcy probability.
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 "higher than 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Their number is given with the figure.
The filed-accounts figures cover the whole NACE division 71, not only NACE 7120. There are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the division's 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.