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Family-owned Richard Crookes Constructions – the builder of the Sydney Modern Art Gallery, UTS Central and the Sirius Sydney apartment project at The Rocks – has denied calling in voluntary administrators.
The company on Wednesday rejected reports that it had called in Deloitte as administrator, with managing director Jamie Crookes saying the speculation was totally untrue.
“We have not appointed any administrator, we have not approached any administrator, and we have not made any injection of capital,” he told this masthead.
Meanwhile, Deloitte said there was “no involvement of our people relating to any Richard Crookes external administration”.
Other construction groups contacted about the speculation also said they had not heard anything relating to Richard Crookes. They did say, though, that the construction sector was still feeling the pinch of high cost of materials and labour, and people defaulting on home…