2012 News
The Lanes Group has developed a simple yet highly innovative safety device that has the potential to transform working at height across the rail industry – significantly improving safety, productivity and staff satisfaction. The new rail safety strop is attached to the rail, acting as a restraint point, to stop staff working at height from entering unsafe areas and…
A challenging section of sewer almost jeopardised Severn Trent Water’s multi-million pound sewer renewal scheme in Nottingham, until Lanes came up with a clever — and award-winning — solution. The project in Upper Parliament Street, which involved relining just 6-metres of sewer with a contract value of just £14,500, was voted overall winner in the UKSTT’s 2012 award in the ‘Small…
The UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, Lanes Group Plc has scooped two prestigious industry awards at the 2012 United Kingdom Society for Trenchless Technology (UKSTT) dinner, with one of the accolades going to the group’s Castlebrae Drainage who are based in Glasgow, which won the renovation small category under £250,000. The UKSTT’s annual awards promote excellence in trenchless technology and recognise the…
Lanes for Drains engineers have been praised for solving a challenging drainage problem that threatened to disrupt the restoration of one of the most important buildings in the historic city of Bath – days before the project was due to be finished. The contractor, Swindon-based Beard, was about to complete the £2.4 million project to…
Congratulations to Scott Norris who climbed Jebel Toubkal, Morocco; 4167m over the weekend and raised money for the Lymphoma Association Lanes company charity. To put the achievement in perspective Sca Fell, in the Lake District is 651m, Snowdon in Wales is 1085m and Ben Nevis in Scotland is 1343m. Well Done Scott fantastic achievement!
The Lanes Group plc has been awarded contracts with Thames Water for Wastewater Network Services worth up to £216 million. Lanes will provide a range of services, including emergency blockage clearance and remedial drainage work, commencing July (Thames Valley) and August (North London). Both contracts are for a minimum of three years, with the option…
Lanes for Drains has been named as a finalist for the prestigious Construction News Health and Safety Award 2012. Health and Safety is one of the most competitive categories in the Construction News Awards, considered by many to be the highest accolades in the industry. Lanes for Drains had to put together a 1,000 word…
Lanes’ Tom Earnshaw is an acrophobic. That means he is terrified of heights. So he is the last person you would expect to throw himself off a 300-foot crane, attached only by a piece of elastic. But that is exactly what Tom did, along with five other Lanes for Drains staff. And it was all for a…
