2015 News
Lanes Group has deployed an innovative combination of trenchless drain rehabilitation techniques to support the development of a £570m new tramline in Nottingham. A combination of ultraviolet and hot cure pipe relining was used in a sewer strengthening project that won Lanes a UKSTT Renovation Award 2014 (under £250,000). The Lanes Reline Division team had to carry…
London Underground has commissioned Lanes Group to paint a major railway bridge on the Jubilee Line in West London. The four-month project to strip and paint the 100-year-old bridge on the line between Kilburn and West Hampstead will require enough paint to cover an area the size of 30 tennis courts – or one and a quarter full-sized…
Lanes Group has completed a three week programme of drainage maintenance at the Shetland Islands’ main power station. The work at Lerwick Power Station, run by Scottish Southern Energy (SSE), included a comprehensive CCTV drainage survey of the site, drainage jetting and pipe patch lining. A team of eight drainage engineers from Lanes Group’s Aberdeen depot travelled by…
Lanes Group is working in partnership with London Underground to test technology that aims to solve one of the most notorious drainage maintenance problems on the Tube network. The company is trialling a vacuumation system called Big Brute on the Metropolitan Line north of Baker Street, which is acknowledged as having the most challenging track drainage system on London…
Lanes Group has been commissioned to clean and survey the drainage system for a new spine road being built to join hundred homes and the local communities together on the site of a former steelworks. The road is being built by civil engineering contractor McPhillips (Wellington) Ltd at the former Brymbo steelworks site in Wrexham, north Wales. Local…
Drainage and maintenance specialist Lanes Group has helped investigate stone culverts thought to be up to 300 years old at a National Trust stately home that is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the north east of England. The National Trust needed to make substantial changes to the drainage system at Grade I…
Lanes Utilities is removing a 10-tonne fatberg on behalf of Thames Water from a sewer under streets in West London. The 50-metre-long fatberg was so heavy that it weakened the sewer to the point that it began to collapse when Lanes engineers tried to remove it. Thames Water concluded the 70-year-old sewer had been damaged beyond repair and had…
Lanes Group drainage engineers in Sheffield have joined other contractors in helping carry out essential repairs and refurbishment work on a local church house. The team based at the Lanes depot, in Greenland, donated their time and services free of charge to help Spa View Community Church, in Spa View Road, Hackenthorpe, Sheffield. Lanes drainage…
