Holt Fairbairn Constructions faces winding-up application in Victoria

Holt Fairbairn Constructions Pty Ltd, trading as HF Constructions, is facing a winding-up application after ASIC published the notice on 27 October 2026. For subcontractors, suppliers and homeowners with contracts on foot, it is the point to check their exposure before the application is heard.

Why it matters

The application against Holt Fairbairn Constructions Pty Ltd, trading as HF Constructions, was published on the ASIC Published Notices register on 27 October 2026. The notice is lodged under paragraph 465A(1)(c) of the Corporations Act, the provision requiring an applicant to publish notice that it has applied to the court for a company to be wound up. An application is the first formal step in that process, not an outcome: no liquidator has been appointed and the company has not been placed into liquidation. The notice identifies Holt Fairbairn Constructions by its Australian Company Number, 607 920 267.

The Corporations Act treats a winding-up application differently from the other insolvency notices that run on the same ASIC register. A receiver is appointed by a secured lender over specific assets, an administrator is appointed by a company or its directors to try to save it, and a liquidator winds a company up once a court or its members have ordered it. Holt Fairbairn Constructions’ notice is none of those outcomes. It is the application stage that could lead to a liquidator being appointed, and only a further notice on the same register would confirm that step.

The numbers

ASIC’s published notice gives three pieces of public detail: the legal provision the application relies on, 465A(1)(c); the company’s ACN, 607 920 267; and the date the notice was published, 27 October 2026. The notice does not state an amount in dispute, so none is reported here. No further ASIC notice naming a liquidator or administrator for the company has since been published on the register.

What’s next

The matter now proceeds to a court hearing on the application. If a court grants the order, the register will carry a follow-up notice naming the liquidator appointed to wind the company up. No such notice has been published as of this edition.

It is the second winding-up application against a Victorian builder on the same register this month. A notice for Function Homes Pty Ltd, an unrelated company, was published on 19 October 2026.