2015 News
Lanes Group has used ultra violet light technology to reline a 1300mm diameter rail culvert – the largest the company has renovated to date using this method to cure the liner. The culvert on the Mole Valley Line at Great Bookham, in Surrey, was 250mm wider than any ultra violet (UV) liner the pipe reline…
Lanes Group has won a contract to deliver drainage survey and maintenance services to the Mersey Gateway project – the project to build a second road crossing over the Mersey in Halton. Drainage engineers based at the Lanes Group depot in Chester are working for the Merseylink Civil Contractors Joint Venture – a joint venture…
Lanes Group utilities director Conrad Ashby has presented Peter Hull with the Player of the Year Award, marking the first season as the main sponsor of the Middlesex disability cricket performance programme. Opening batsman Peter was just one of the players who excelled during a successful season, which ended with Middlesex finishing 4th in the…
Lanes Group drainage engineers used breathing apparatus to enter a section of one of the UK’s largest residual household waste treatment facilities and clear more than 170 tonnes of organic waste. A team from the Lanes Group depot at St Neots, in Cambridgeshire, was called in to carry out the nine-day project in the mechanical…
Lanes Group has won contracts to provide specialist drainage services for all five groundworks companies working on the development site for the new North Wales Prison. The company’s Chester depot is managing the work, which currently involves carrying out CCTV drainage surveys, drain cleansing and drain unblocking at the site on Wrexham Industrial Estate. The…
A father and son working for Lanes Group have won the top award in the inaugural Thames Water Customer Service Awards 2015 for their exceptional and dedicated service that makes them “pure class.” Peter and Kevin Carter received a standing ovation from colleagues as they went up to receive their award – their second of…
Lanes Group has proved its no dig drain repair technology is a much better solution than excavation when speed and cost-control is of the essence. A highway construction contractor called in drainage engineers at the Lanes depot in Chester after spikes were driven through a pipe by mistake. The damage to the surface water drain…
Lanes Group has carried out a CCTV drainage survey at one of the most famous historical buildings in Wales. Drainage engineers from the Lanes Cardiff depot were called in to survey the condition of all the roof downpipes on the Grade 1 Pier head Building. The Pier head is part of the National Assembly of…
