2014 News
Lanes Group’s Rail Division has launched its own version of the company’s innovative and award-winning quality tool that uses cartoon pictures to show how worksites must look to be safe and productive. Essential Standards is being used by more than 120 Lanes drainage operatives working on London Underground (LU) maintenance and repair contracts – in…
Lanes Group engineers have cleared a blocked river culvert as part of an initiative to save tens of thousands of pounds while a weir is rebuilt. The Environment Agency has commissioned work to carry out major repairs to the weir on the River Medway, close to Royal Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. Main contractor Jackson Civil…
Lanes engineers have taken drainage inspections along the M6toll around Birmingham into the fast lane with a powerful zoom camera. The Lanes depot at Minworth, in Birmingham, has invested in the UK’s most advanced drainage pole camera to carry out the inspection work for Midland Expressway, which operates and maintains the 27-mile-long motorway from Coleshill…
Lanes engineers have completed an “intensely technical” drainage excavation project ahead of schedule, despite atrocious weather and challenging ground conditions. The work involved installing a 4,000 gallon cesspool tank for national plant hire firm Mabey Hire at its depot in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. Mabey Hire had called in Lanes Group’s Leeds depot to carry out…
Lanes engineers have put their jet vacuumation technology to a very special use – emptying a ‘bath of baked beans’. They vacuumed up the beans at the Holiday Inn Warrington on Thursday (June 19) after General Manager Anthony Milligan had spent the whole day sitting in them in the hotel foyer. He raised over £500…
Lanes engineers have caught this rodent on camera, illustrating the problems posed by rat infestations in sewers. They were carrying out a CCTV survey on a sewer in the greater Manchester area when the rat popped out of a lateral connection and appeared to pose for the camera. Rat problems in sewers are often made…
Lanes engineers have discovered what is believed to be a record number of drain rods blocking a sewer. They pulled 55 of the rods from a foul water pipe leading from a restaurant in a town just outside London. No wonder the Lanes team was responding to an urgent call about a badly blocked drain!…
Lanes Group has used a no-dig patch lining technique to support the decommissioning of drainage pipes on a production site of leading global manufacturer Kimberly-Clark. The Lanes engineers based at the company’s Chester depot used local structural repairs, known as patch liners, to block lateral pipes at Kimberly-Clark’s paper mills in Flint, North Wales. The…
