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The Lanes Group is the first sewer rehabilitation specialist to be awarded WRc Approved™ certification for the installation of a WRc Approved™ patch drain repair system.

Hot on the heels of British Standards accreditations for quality, environment and business continuity, Lanes for Drains’ super depot at Slough, has done it again.

Lanes Group has created the UK’s first City & Guilds course for drainage engineers as part of a strategy to embed a culture of excellence within the company.

Lanes Group has used its innovative drainage technology to carry out the first ever reline repair of a refuse chute in a residential tower block in England.

Lanes for Drains engineers in Derby have used poly-pigs to root out a blocked gas main that builders feared could delay the completion of a new school.

Lanes pulled off a tricky drain reinforcement to keep Manchester’s multi-million pound tram network extension scheme on track. The no-dig specialist lined 54-metres of sewer with only a single point of access, instead of the usual two manholes, using a technique known as a ‘blind shot’.

Lanes Group has been selected as a finalist in the Construction News Awards for the second year running for developing cartoons that show its engineers how to work safely.

Customer Mark Wolfe has praised Lanes for Drains drainage team Joe Burt and Mike Harrison, based at our Derby depot, for “going the extra mile” in their approach to emptying his septic tank.

Saving and recycling is all the rage now – but we can still learn from our forebears, as Lanes for Drains discovered when asked to empty a hidden chamber at a Grade 2 Listed country house.

Lanes for Drains is providing specialist drainage support for international parking company Q-Park as part of its multi-million pound upgrade of central London’s most important car parks.

Lanes for Drains got to the bottom of persistent flooding at one of the UK’s largest cement works – and saved the company tens of thousands of pounds it expected to have to spend to cure the problem.

By day, mild-mannered Gavin McNulty is an office administrator with Monton drainage specialist, the Lanes Group. But by night (and at weekends) he is a ‘Coco-nutter‘ — one of the world-famous troupe of clog dancers from the Rossendale Valley.

Lanes for Drains engineers in South Wales have tested drainage technology to its limits to help the Royal National Lifeboat Institution empty a septic tank on the seashore below a cliff.

Lanes for Drains engineers have helped ensure fire fighting teams at London Gatwick Airport are at optimum readiness by renewing pipes that supply them with water.