BOUWUNIE, the Flemish federation of the SMEs of the construction, defends the interests of its members (the employers and the independent workers in the field of construction).

Thanks to its effective action at national, provincial and regional level, BOUWUNIE has become the biggest professional federation (approximately 8,000 members) within UNIZO, the Union of the independent entrepreneurs. The UNIZO is the biggest inter-professional organisation grouping together Flemish independents and SMEs.

BOUWUNIE is the umbrella of 6 professional associations, each one specialised in a specific activity of the field:

• construction contractors and craftsmen
• carpenters and joiners
• painters and interior decorators
• plasterers 
• sanitary system and heating installers
• workers undertaking wiring and pipe works and/or road works.

The close contacts held over 50 years with these associations, with other professional federations, as well as the members have contributed to a wide knowledge of the problems in the various sectors and the business. Such competences are at the disposal of the members.

BOUWUNIE has a national secretariat in Brussels and provincial secretariats in Brugge, Kortrijk, Gent and Hasselt.

As an empoyers organisation, one of its main tasks consists of the permanent defence of the entrepreneurs' interest, not to mention the provision of a wide range of services. BOUWUNIE supplies to its members information in the social, fiscal, financial, legal and economic fields and organises training courses in technical, commercial and industrial subjects.

BOUWUNIE informs its members with the magazine "Bouwnieuws".

President: Robert Hoedemakers
Managing Director: Hilde Masschelein

BOUWUNIE
Spastraat 8
B-1000 Brussel
Belgium
tel. +32/2/238 06 05
fax +32/2/238 06 11
e-mail: info@bouwunie.be