2011 News
Lanes for Drains engineers have proved they have the technology to operate on the ocean floor – even when it’s on dry land. The National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth called in the leading drainage company when faced with the task of clearing four tons of dirty sand, gravel and sludge from the bottom of its…
Emma Harvie, from Lanes’ out of hours call centre in Manchester, has helped raise over £1000 for Cancer Research after completing the Race for Life for her sister, Louise. Mum of two, Louise, was diagnosed with breast cancer last October aged only 34, yet she completed the 5-kilometre race alongside Emma and their Mum, Patricia….
Lanes has proved its worth as a long-term signing for premier league football club Blackburn Rovers, by discovering — and remedying — a collapsed flood defence drain which could have threatened the pitch. Lanes has carried out regular maintenance checks to the Ewood Park drainage system since 2007, when it was called in to deal…
Yorkshire-based transformer manufacturer, Winder Power, is the first site in Europe to install a revolutionary web-interfaced interceptor monitor, thanks to Lanes and Aquasentry. The web-based monitor and alarm system recognises high oil levels in the interceptors, and triggers an alarm which immediately closes a device to seal the site within seconds. It ensures that Winder’s…
Lanes has used Ultracoat, a revolutionary waterproofing rehabilitation system, to help a Drainage Board keep its patch of Lincolnshire free from flooding for another 50 years. The Upper Witham Internal Drainage Board (IDB) is one of 130 such organisations across the country which, together, look after water levels in over 1.2 million hectares of low-lying…
The Lanes Group has been shortlisted in the health and safety category of the Construction News’ Specialist Awards 2011. John Glover, Group H&S Manager at Lanes, says: “The Lanes’ operation stands firmly on a foundation of health and safety excellence, and that has — quietly — been our focus for many years. “More recently, we…
