Eccles News
Drainage engineers have carried out a comprehensive upgrade of surface water and foul drains at a Midland power station by using no-dig lining technology to renovate pipes. The Lanes Group plc teams installed 11 pipe liners and 40 local structural point repairs across the drainage system at Corby Power Station in Northamptonshire. The work was…
Sheffield City Council commissioned Lanes Group plc to carry out the planned drain maintenance work at Grade I Listed Sheffield Town Hall. Drainage engineers from the Lanes Sheffield depot have installed 64 structural liners in pipes beneath the 120-year-old civic building in the centre of the city. The cure in place pipelining (CIPP) technique, often…
A team of have-a-go-hikers from Lanes Group plc will be challenging their fitness and head for heights by climbing one of England’s highest mountains in aid of charity. The colleagues who all work at the Lanes HQ and operational depot at Eccles, Greater Manchester, will climb Skiddaw, just north of Keswick, in Cumbria, in aid…
Lanes Group is implementing the first project to extensively line highway drainage pipes as part of a Smart Motorway project. It has been commissioned by the Carillion Kier Joint Venture, working for Highways England, to install ultraviolet (UV) liners during the M6 Junction 16-19 Smart Motorway scheme between Crewe and Knutsford, in Cheshire. The Smart…
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…
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 drainage maintenance teams are working around the clock to help communities in Yorkshire recover from flooding. The company has 16 specialist vehicles and more than 30 drainage engineers working in flood-hit areas across the county. More than 6,700 homes and hundreds of businesses in the north of England have been affected by the…
Lanes Group has completed a major project to repair and reline pipelines supporting a new biomass combined heat and power (CHP) plant and whisky production at four Scottish Speyside distilleries. The work was carried out by the company’s Reline Division during the two-week annual shut-down at the CHP plant and distilleries in Rothes, Moray. Jon…
