2015 News

Lanes Group’s David Nutton named as finalist in Finance Director Awards

09/10/2015

Lanes Group Finance Director David Nutton has been named as a finalist in the Yorkshire Finance Director Awards 2015. The awards, run in partnership with the Yorkshire Post, recognise and celebrate outstanding financial talent across the region. David was among more than 150 finance directors originally nominated, and has now been chosen as one of…

Lanes Group highly commended in Light Rail Awards

08/10/2015

Lanes Group’s Rail Division has been highly commended by judges in the Light Rail Awards for its work to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle survey service for rail operators. The announcement was made at an award ceremony at the Honourable Artillery Company in the City of London on Tuesday 7 October. Lanes Rail Division was…

Lanes Group goes digital with health and safety inspections

07/10/2015

Lanes Group has begun using a new mobile app that allows managers to digitally record findings of worksite health and safety inspections. The system allows inspections to be completed with no paper work, and builds up a database of information that can be analysed in different ways to fully understand health  safety and environmental issues….

Lanes Rail Division rises to challenge to reduce track flood risks

06/10/2015

Lanes Group has supported railway improvements to minimise flood risks by relocating a track drainage pump in work that also involved removing asbestos piping. The company’s rail division completed the project for main contractor Osborne after just 48 hours of planning and within one seven-hour track possession. Lanes Rail Division Network Rail Manager Eamonn Maloney…

Lanes Group drainage expertise supports power station demolition

28/09/2015

Lanes Group has been commissioned to provide specialist drainage survey and cleaning support for a demolition team decommissioning a coal-fired power station. Drainage engineers from the national drainage and maintenance specialist’s depot at Sevenoaks, in Kent, are carrying out the work at the site of the former Kingsnorth Power Station near Medway, in Kent. Energy…

Lanes Group shortlisted for two international rail awards

28/09/2015

Lanes Group has been named as a finalist in two categories for the Global Light Rail Awards 2015 for its development of aerial drone surveys. The national drainage and maintenance specialist has been shortlisted for Technical Innovation (Infrastructure) and Supplier of the Year (Over EUR10m) in the prestigious awards. The Global Light Rail Awards, now…

Lanes Group tackles fatberg to keep the tills jingling in Regent Street

23/09/2015

Lanes Utilities has removed a fatberg from a sewer beneath one of the globe’s world class shopping destinations to keep the tills rolling and the shoppers happy. A number of major retailers along Regent Street in London’s West End had experienced drain problems, prompting Thames Water to send an emergency team from Lanes Utilities, part…

Lanes engineers visit the seals for aquarium clean

19/09/2015

Lanes Group drainage engineers have cleaned a seal enclosure at an aquarium while being watched by those who have had a vested interest in the quality of their work – the seals themselves. The seals remained in their Seal Cove home at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, while the team based…