2014 News
Lanes Group has become the first drainage specialist to carry out a pioneering no dig lateral junction repair on a wastewater network sewer in the UK. The lateral junction patch repairs – commonly known as top hats – have been designed to prevent external water infiltration, and can be installed up to 30 metres from…
Lanes Groups Rail Division has won a contract as one of 24 specialist suppliers who will carry out work worth £330m to upgrade 70 London Underground stations, making them fit for the next decade. Lanes was selected as part of a new approach by Transport for London to major infrastructure projects to ensure all work…
Lanes Group has won two prestigious national awards in less than a week after the company developed an innovative picture-based guide that is transforming the way it sets workplace standards and trains staff. The company, the UK’s largest independent supplier of underground pipeline and utility services, first won the Health & Safety Excellence Award at…
Lanes Group has been selected to carry out drainage surveys and remedial repairs at schools in Birmingham. Galliford Try has commissioned the work as part of its full facilities management service to 11 schools across Birmingham. Engineers from the Lanes Birmingham depot at Minworth have carried out camera surveys, cleaning and remedial work at three…
Lanes Group engineers have been praised for their quick and expert response in helping to end a persistent flooding problem on a Somerset housing estate. Housing Association Aster Properties called the Lanes Bristol depot when it discovered a large water catch pit clogged with silt as they investigated the reason for flooding at one of…
Lanes Group engineers have used one of their newest no-dig pipe rehabilitation technologies to reline the entire storm water drainage system at an aerospace service centre. They used a KrasoSluice in a project to rehabilitate a kilometre of drain lines at United Technologies Aerospace Systems (UTAS) in Marston Green, Birmingham. Lanes Group’s pollution control partner,…
Lanes Group is demonstrating the vital importance of using effective transport management systems when delivering high quality, sustainable services by clocking up record vehicle mileages at the start of 2014. On just one day, Tuesday 7 January, the entire fleet of 213 Specialist utility vehicles delivering on the company’s Waste Water Infrastructure Contract in London…
The theme of this year’s World Water Day is water and energy, and a major objective of the day is to ‘raise awareness of the inter-linkages between water and energy’. To help support this objective we have created an infographic that looks at how biogas made from waste and waste water, can meet the growing…
