Construction company with education department contracts enters administration

Another construction company has entered administration, this time leaving schools with close to finished projects stuck having to look elsewhere.

Daniel, who owns a small business, says he’s owed over $250,000 by the company who told him yesterday to put down his tools.

“We went to work yesterday at a state government school, we’re doing the landscaping there … at 95 per cent completion and the supervisor came out and he had a phone call and he just said ‘I just lost my job, the business has been liquidated, everyone down tools, I need to lock up the site,” he told Jacqui Felgate.

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Jacqui Felgate read out a statement by the education department which confirmed the construction company, Allmore Constructions, had a contract with the department to build a new gym at Wallan Primary School.

“They’re currently assessing what is required to get that project completed,” she said.

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