Aberdeen News
A CCTV camera system designed for surveying sewers has been put to a new use – investigating concerns about a pipe blockage at a gas plant. Drainage engineers based at the Lanes Group plc depot in Aberdeen were called in to survey the gas pipe at the biogas generation plant near Coupar Angus, in Perth…
Things are looking down for the first time in Mark Morrice’s career – and he could not be happier. Mark is the new Area Development Manager at Lanes Group’s Aberdeen depot after he joined the business from a cladding and roofing company. He said: “I had been in that sector since I was 18, so…
It is an industrial drainage pipe renovation programme that can only be achieved with the lightest of touches. When you operate thousands of metres of industrial effluent and water pipes that spread out under a village, through fields, across a river bridge, and under a stream – twice – the last thing you want to…
Facilities managers at a Scottish casino played their cards right by calling in Lanes Group to help them resolve a tricky drainage problem. Internal drainage pipes at the casino were proving susceptible to springing a leak, especially during and after periods of heavy rain. Facilities managers needed a long-term and effective solution to the problem,…
Lanes Group has carried out a major programme of drainage surveying and cleaning as part of a £38 million refurbishment scheme at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Drainage engineers from the Lanes Aberdeen depot worked for more than six months on the project, focused on the cleaning of drainage downpipes in the largest building on the Foresterhill…
In the pink with a green car, Regional Manager Stevie Fairbairn, left, hands over the BMW i3 to Operations Supervisor Andy McCormack. Lanes Group plc has taken delivery of its first electric car to support its strategy of delivering sustainable utility wastewater and drainage services. It now has a BMW i3 to support its front-line…
If there is one part of a new build project where it is often true to say, ‘Once it is done, there is no going back,’ it’s the drainage system. It’s one of the first elements of the construction programme, along with the foundations. Much of the work done subsequently sits on top of it,…
Lanes Group plc has been awarded a framework contract to provide wastewater maintenance services for Business Stream, Scotland’s largest business-to-business supplier of water and wastewater services. The company is one of two specialist drainage providers to have been awarded a framework contract under competitive tender. The contact covers wastewater pipe lining, service inspection, and cleaning…
