CIPP News
National drainage and wastewater maintenance specialist Lanes Group plc has installed its largest ever ultraviolet liner – and one that could be the largest to have been installed in the UK. The UV cured in place pipe (CIPP) liner was 1800mm in diameter, tall enough for a man of average height to walk along without…
Cast iron pipes in blocks of flats have been given a new lease of life by being spray lined by – a process that allows residents to stay in their homes during the drainage rehabilitation programme. The multi-layer liner has a design life of 20 years and will help to minimise the risk of pipe…
Paul Henderson, Business Development Manager of Lanes Group’s Sewer Lining Division, has been appointed to the Council of UKSTT, the UK Society for Trenchless Technology. He is one of 20 members of the society’s council, drawn from UK industries involved in trenchless technologies, including water, gas and electricity utilities, and will serve for a minimum…
A multi-disciplinary team of drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc has completed the lining of a drainage pipe nearly one kilometre long on behalf of a contractor working for Scottish Water. The challenging project involved installing five separate liners, one of them 200 metres long, in a surface water pipe across farmland near Kelso in…
Drain lining technology from Lanes Group plc is being used to rehabilitate highway drains while helping hard-pressed maintenance budgets stretch further. Highway chiefs are switching from excavating and replacing defective drains to lining them because the no-dig approach is proving safer and less costly. Effective maintenance of roadside drainage is a key priority for highway…
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…
Drainage specialist Lanes Group plc has used fold-and-install large-diameter lining technology to rehabilitate a pipe that that will play a crucial role in creating Europe’s largest man-made nature reserve. It has deployed a pillow packer to install a series of point repairs inside a 1220mm-diameter inlet pipe supplying water to an area of land being…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have carried out a comprehensive programme of drain rehabilitation to renew pipes serving homes in Plymouth. Teams from the Lanes Plymouth depot uses the full array of their pipe renovation services to complete the project on behalf of the city’s largest social housing landlord. A CCTV drainage survey, also…
