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Specialised construction activities

Current registrations 80division 43: 128,990
Starters, 12 months 2632.5 per 100 · Belgium 8.8
Employment (FTE) 153 employers · latest accounts
Median age 1.3 yearsBelgium 8.1 years

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Filed accounts

NACE 43214 · financial year 2025 · 32 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
46.6%
division 45.2% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€24,211
division €13,192 · Belgium €16,539
Median equity
€114,091
division €82,149 · Belgium €98,485
Loss-making
25.0%
division 22.3% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
9.4%
division 7.8% · Belgium 12.4%
Median liquidity
1.60
division 1.76 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
40.0%
financial year 2024, 30 filings · division 42.6% · Belgium 38.4%
Per financial year20242025
Median solvency48.1%46.6%
Median net result€28,084€24,211

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Spread across the country

by region and province · 59 of 80 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 43 · 72.9%
  • Wallonia 12 · 20.3%
  • Brussels 2 · 3.4%
  • Abroad 2 · 3.4%
fewer moremax 11

Largest employers

NACE 43214 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 JACOBS BEVEILIGINGMalle 9.4 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 JBE SECURITYBegijnendijk 4.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 SECURE ELECTRONICSBeersel 0.6 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 8 companies
  • 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 5
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 5
  • 149 Sectors related to metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 1
  • 201 Independent retail 1
  • 317 Security and surveillance services 1

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

Division 43: Specialised construction

Related activities

8 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
General electrical installation work43211 22,594 1,897 192 20,605
Installation of electric heating, air conditioning, cooling and ventilation43222 9,481 557 74 11,740
Plumbing work43221 7,007 648 72 3,169
Insulation installation43230 4,216 585 43 2,509
Other construction installation43240 4,009 372 50 4,721
Electrical installation work in industrial facilities43212 1,100 61 14 1,051
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Specialised construction activities43223 524 201 3 208
Specialised construction activities43213 240 93 2 1

Bankruptcies per year in division 43

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies1,2381,1181,1961,2851,4069579961,3741,4961,8201,8471,294
Jobs lost2,9772,5162,6162,7092,8072,3171,9342,5412,6723,3653,3792,180

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 43

6,829 employers
Median
€61,500
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€52,500 to €69,800
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
56 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €59,700 €50,700 to €68,200 4,516
10 to 49 FTE €63,900 €55,800 to €71,400 2,080
50 to 249 FTE €70,100 €61,100 to €77,700 204
250 FTE or more €77,000 €70,500 to €82,400 29

Running bankruptcies in the sector

NACE division 43
Number
2,777
Half have run longer than
22 months
Belgium: 20 months
Longer than three years
31%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 108,606 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% 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 5 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

52 of the 67,052 companies in NACE division 43 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (18), France (9) and Germany (8). Together they employ 3,749 of the division's 101,568 FTE: 3.7%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €112.7m awarded 11,263 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaamse ondersteuningspremie (VOP) voor werkgevers (uitdovend stelsel)
  • Federal transfers 15.2m amount as published 17 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Samenwerkingsakkoord Beliris - Kapitaaloverdracht overheidsbedrijven.
  • 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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Insights on Specialised construction activities

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €24,211 is above Belgium's €16,539. 9.4% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.6% is above Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 32.5 of 100 companies started, against 8.8 in Belgium. No NACE division counts more. Half of the companies are younger than 1.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 26.3% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 3 largest employers hold 15 of the 15 FTE: 100.0%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 05-11-2026 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 43214 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 1,275,887 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,448 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.