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Lanes Group’s Rail Division has appointed Kevin Robins as its new Health and Safety Manager. It is a new departure for an established health and safety professional who has built his expertise in the construction industry. Kevin, a Chartered Member of the Institute of Safety and Health, said: “It’s a fresh challenge and I am…
In what is believed to be a UK first, Lanes Group plc has carried out an innovative repair of a siphon pipe beneath a main railway line. Its sewer rehabilitation and lining division has used a new compact and ultra-thin packer to reach damaged sections beyond a bend in the pipe beneath the Great Western…
There cannot be many people in the UK who do not know about fatbergs. The giant clumps of fats and oils, and other waste matter, that can clog the UK’s sewers have captured the public imagination. As a drainage and utilities specialist, Lanes Group has played its part, working with Thames Water to remove the…
Lanes Group plc has been shortlisted for the prestigious Construction News Specialist Health Safety and Wellbeing Award. The drainage specialist has been named as a finalist for its pioneering work to use digital app technology to monitor workforce happiness and provide professional wellbeing support for colleagues who ask for it. The Wellbeing App and Practitioner…
The UK’s largest independent drainage and utility specialist, Lanes Group plc, has invested over £1million in new pipe lining technology. The purchase of three new dual-core ultraviolet light cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) lining systems significantly adds to the company’s sewer rehabilitation capability. Two of the UV systems will line pipes with diameters from 150mm to 1600mm. The…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have demonstrated the power of water jetting when deployed to clear silt, rubble, and boulders from large-diameter railway culverts. A team of drainage operatives from the company’s Manchester depot removed 25 tonnes of material from a 30-metre-long culvert under the Manchester to Wigan railway line at Atherton in just…
No one should be fooled by the UK’s summer heatwave – now is the right time to prepare for flooding to come, warned drainage specialist Lanes Group plc. Just as record temperatures are predicted, The Met Office has issued a Yellow Warning for thunderstorms across a large part of eastern, and south east England, and…
Lanes Rail has completed more than 30,000 repairs and introduced multiple innovations to improve efficiency, safety, and cost control in the first year of a major new maintenance contract for London Underground. The five-year 1 FM contract, which went live in June 2017, covers all building maintenance work along underground lines, and at depots, train…
