2013 News
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. Its engineers reached for the skies instead of going underground to refurbish two chutes at the 13-storey Devonshire Tower in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. The technique, pioneered by…
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. They were not the porky kind of pigs that go oink oink, but the plastic ones, because a poly-pig is a device that is used to clean out…
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’. Wherever new tramlines are laid, the utility pipes running…
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. The initiative has earned the company, the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, a place as a finalist in the Construction News…
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. And Mark knows all about going the distance to deliver quality customer service, because he is a senior pilot with British Airways. Cleaning septic…
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. Engineers based at the Lanes for Drains Chester depot were called in to pump out and inspect the large underground chamber…
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. The work has involved surveying and cleaning drainage systems in some of the largest, deepest and most complex underground car parks in the country. Q-Park, one of three leading parking providers in…
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. Lanes engineers based in Sheffield were called in to investigate the flooding of a railway track on…
