2015 News
Lanes Utilities has won the Thames Water Health and Safety Innovation of the Year award for the second year in a row. Judges were impressed by a submission detailing the benefits of a new digital point of works risk assessment tool designed to support a real step change in health and safety culture. Lanes Utilities,…
Disability cricketers sponsored by Lanes Group were invited to form a guard of honour at one of the top county cricket matches of the season. They took part in the starting ceremony at the NatWest T20 Blast match between Middlesex and their closest rivals, Surrey, on Thursday 23rd July at Lords’. Lanes Group sponsors the…
Lanes Group is donating a life-saving defibrillator to a school in Essex as part of a national drive to help people in local communities who suffer potentially fatal cardiac arrests. Stifford Clays Primary School, in Grays, in Essex, is the second school in the UK to be given the equipment as part of the drainage and maintenance specialists’ ‘Protecting…
When Aberdeen’s A90 flooded last weekend, it was Lanes for Drains to the rescue, thanks to a Lanes’ crew who happened to be passing. The pair were on the way back from an emergency call out to a client whose premises had flooded, when the Police flagged down the tanker for help on Saturday afternoon, 6 July. A torrential…
A school rugby team sponsored by the Lanes Group has won the day for the red rose county in a match played ahead of the Leeds Rhinos v St Helens Super League clash. The triumphant team, from Haslingden High School in Lancashire, beat Yorkshire’s Sherburn-in-Elmet School 14:10 in front of thousands of rugby league fans. Lanes Group was Haslingden High’s…
Lanes Group has been praised for its fast action in response to drainage fault at a Scottish university that resulted in sewage building up inside a deep sump chamber. Facility managers at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen said the Lanes team’s rapid response helped make sure the drainage pump failure was resolved with minimum disruption to everyday activity. Ian…
Lanes Group has cleared 90 tonnes of silt and rubble from a large culvert to allow civil engineers to carry out a structural survey. A team of drainage engineers from the company’s depot in Eccles, Greater Manchester, worked on the seven-week project in Etruria, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. Lanes Group, the national drainage and maintenance solution specialist, was commissioned…
Lanes Group gained Highly Commended at the recent Construction News Awards for their e-PoWRA initiative in Health & Safety. The national drainage, utilities and maintenance provider impressed the judges with its new industry-leading digital point of works risk assessment tool, which is designed to support a real step change in health and safety culture. Judges commended Lanes Group…
