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Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have completed a major sewer cleansing and surveying programme in Cardiff to enhance protection against flash flooding. Cardiff City Council commissioned a specialist team from the Lanes Cardiff depot to carry out the work over a three-month period in Pontcanna to the west of the city centre. Two jet…
A drain rehabilitation team from Lanes Group plc has used no-dig lining to renew underground foul and production pipes at a large cheese factory. The drainage engineers installed seven point liners, see picture above, and a 12-metre full liner in pipes at the factory during a weekend shutdown. Matt Banks, Area Development Manager for the…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have spent a week delivering specialist pipe surveying and cleaning services to customers in Orkney. Customers praised the Lanes team for the support provided to clear a heavily-contaminated pipe, water jet drains around a major reservoir and survey sewers at a new housing estate. Five operatives from the Lanes…
Specialist drainage services delivered by Lanes Group plc is helping Booths maintain its reputation as one of the most successful and best-liked food retailers in the North West of England. Co-ordinated from its Preston depot, Lanes provides a planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive drainage service for Booths’ 28 stores across Lancashire, Cumbria, Cheshire, Greater…
Have you ever heard of a fatberg? Keep an eye on the news over the coming months and the chances are you will. Utilities companies and drainage firms are coming across mammoth fatbergs on an increasingly regular basis and they are posing a huge problem to our waterways and marine life. Here, we take a…
The threat of flooding faced by a community in a Welsh mountain valley is being greatly reduced by a culvert clearance programme carried out by Lanes Group plc. The drainage specialist has been commissioned by the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf to carry out the surface water drain and culvert cleaning work in and…
Civil and structural engineers at Lanes Group plc are helping clients move from an old world of inadequate asset information to a new one of precision knowledge that pays dividends in cost control and programme efficiency. Deployment of new digital technologies to support asset surveying is transforming the type, amount and quality of data that…
Drainage specialist Lanes Group plc has used lateral thinking to spark a change of direction and solve a supermarket’s drainage problem without the major disruption the retailer had feared. Facilities managers for the national food chain had thought they might need to move walk-in storage freezers at the store to excavate and repair a drain…
