42 - CIVIL ENGINEERING Companies in Netherlands
Approximately 47,425 real businesses classified under 42 - Civil engineering in Netherlands, with officer, shareholder and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
Approximately 47,425 real businesses classified under 42 - Civil engineering operate in Netherlands. Covers companies officially classified under SBI 2008 code 42 (Civil engineering), part of Netherlands' SBI 2008 classification of economic activities. This division is one of the sub-sectors making up the broader Construction sector. Ownership, beneficial-ownership disclosure and company-registration rules for businesses under this specific activity code follow the same general framework that applies across Construction in Netherlands.
Beneficial-ownership and registration rules for Construction companies in Netherlands follow the same national framework as every other sector there.
Full Netherlands beneficial ownership overviewTop 42 - Civil engineering Companies in Netherlands
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Data Coverage
Record counts for SIC Code F in Netherlands, as of the last reconciliation.
Section F is 8% of the Netherlands register by entity count and its 5th largest sector — see all sectors.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you
Construction in the Netherlands carries a distinctive, cascading financial exposure through the Wet Ketenaansprakelijkheid (WKa, Chain Liability Act). Under the WKa, a client or principal contractor is jointly liable for wage tax, social-insurance premiums and minimum wage owed by any staffing firm, contractor or subcontractor further down the work chain — a rule specifically designed to stop contractors and subcontractors gaming payroll-tax remittance through layered outsourcing, and one that makes every link in the chain liable for the links below it.
To manage that exposure, Dutch construction contractors commonly pay subcontractors into a G-rekening (blocked account), reserved specifically for covering the subcontractor’s payroll-tax and social-insurance liabilities, which limits the paying party’s own chain-liability exposure. For verification, a Dutch construction counterparty’s real financial exposure in this sector depends on its position in the subcontracting chain and whether standard risk-mitigation mechanisms like the G-rekening are actually in use — not just on its own direct contractual relationships.
Netherlands Construction, by the register
Charts render from live counts. Modules are suppressed where coverage is too thin to be meaningful.
Entities by sub-sector
SIC division level, live from official registries.
Active vs. inactive
Section F entities currently on the register as active, vs. struck off or dormant.
Company size, by disclosed headcount
By number of employees on file, Section F, Netherlands. 486 entities with no disclosed headcount are not counted in any band.
Who uses Netherlands construction ownership data
The three checks this sector's data is most often run for.
Wet Ketenaansprakelijkheid (chain liability) check
Under the WKa (Wet Ketenaansprakelijkheid), a client or main contractor in the Netherlands is jointly liable for wage tax, social-insurance premiums and minimum wage owed by any staffing firm, contractor or lower-tier subcontractor in its work chain — a real, cascading financial exposure that follows the whole subcontracting chain.
G-account (blocked payment account) verification
To limit chain-liability exposure, Dutch construction contractors typically pay subcontractors via a G-rekening (blocked account) reserved specifically for the subcontractor’s payroll-tax and social-insurance obligations — confirming whether this mechanism is actually used is a real, checkable risk-mitigation signal.
Multi-tier subcontracting exposure
Chain liability under the WKa applies to every link in the chain, not just the direct contractual relationship, so assessing a Dutch construction counterparty’s real exposure means understanding who’s below it in the subcontracting chain, not just who it directly contracted with.
Sub-sectors within Construction
SIC divisions inside this section, each with its own Netherlands company directory.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies are classified under 42 - Civil engineering in Netherlands?
Approximately 47,425 businesses are classified under 42 - Civil engineering in Netherlands.
What does SBI 2008 code 42 cover?
42 - Civil engineering is the official name for this activity under Netherlands' SBI 2008 classification of economic activities. It is a sub-category within the broader Construction sector.
How is this different from the broader Construction category?
Construction is the top-level sector; SBI 2008 code 42 identifies one specific activity within it, letting you narrow a search to exactly this business type rather than the whole sector.
What ownership information is available for these companies?
The same beneficial-ownership, shareholder and officer disclosure framework applies as for any other company in Netherlands, regardless of its specific activity classification. See the individual company profile for the full ownership picture, or the Construction sector overview for the general national framework.
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