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Using the sewer as a high voltage cable duct might have seemed like a good idea at the time. The contractors working at a power station had smashed through the side of the sewer pipe, then fed the 3.5-inch diameter cable through the hole they created, down the sewer, then out through another hole on…
The National Trust has called in Lanes drainage engineers to investigate drainage along one of the most popular walks in the North East of England to help keep its visitors’ feet dry. The Long Walk at Gibside, nine miles south east of Newcastle upon Tyne, attracts more than 250,000 visitors a year, to enjoy a…
Deteriorating drainage systems in blocks of flats can be a prime cause for damp, and a major facilities management headache if blocked or damaged pipes are hard to reach. Drainage engineers from Lanes Group’s Chester depot demonstrated that the company’s remote access repair systems are at the forefront of providing the answer to these challenges….
Lanes Rail has won a contract to deliver drainage maintenance services on four of Transport for London’s sub-surface and deep level Underground lines. It has been awarded the entire Lot 2 drainage contract for Sub-Surface Lines (SSL) and BCV Lines. Previously, Lanes had shared the contract with Skanska. The contract covers drainage maintenance work on…
Lanes completes drainage checks at major new biomedical institute Drainage engineers at Lanes Group have carried out the final CCTV drainage surveys at the Francis Crick Institute – destined to be one of the world’s most important biomedical research centres. The Crick, named after Francis Crick, a scientist who, along with James Watson, discovered the…
Lanes Group has delivered a programme of specialist drainage services to support a drainage improvement project on the A36 near Warminster. The work has been completed by drainage engineers from the Lanes Bristol depot on behalf of Skanska, working for Highways England. The upgrade has been completed to improve the drainage along this busy section…
Lanes Group can offer clients a full CCTV drainage survey service with enhanced standards of safe working in potentially hazardous environments after investing in EX-rated camera technology. The drainage survey camera systems are designed to be ‘intrinsically safe’ when operated in confined spaces where there is a risk that they could come into contact with…
Drainage engineers found a novel solution when a client needed to establish the condition of a centuries-old culvert – they went surfing. The team from the Lanes depot in Plymouth mounted a CCTV drainage survey camera on a surfboard and floated it through the culvert under an Elizabethan building. Usually, they would have used one…
