Eccles News

Lanes no dig technology on shopping list for store construction firm

16/07/2013

A construction company had Lanes for Drains ‘no dig’ technology and expertise on the shopping list when it needed to urgently solve a drainage problem just before the opening of a new supermarket. Lincolnshire-based civil engineering firm Britcon called in Lanes for Drains, the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, to carry out a pre-handover survey…

It’s a WRc Approved™ first for Lanes

21/05/2013

The Lanes Group is the first sewer rehabilitation specialist to be awarded WRc Approved™ certification for the installation of a WRc Approved™ patch drain repair system. It is also only the second company to gain WRc Approved™ certification for the installation of a full-length liner, with its UV cure, CIPP, manhole-to-manhole system. The commendations followed…

Repairing Sewers: Shedding UV light on the problem

25/07/2012

Repairing sewers by no-dig methods is quicker and less disruptive than excavation. But when the pressure is really on, as it was on a £1.7million project for Severn Trent Water (STW) to repair 2500-metres of sewers, Lanes has UV light technology which allows the company to renovate pipes in double quick time. The Victorian sewerage system…

Lanes lines chamber to keep Lincolnshire watertight

17/02/2011

Lanes has used Ultracoat, a revolutionary waterproofing rehabilitation system, to help a Drainage Board keep its patch of Lincolnshire free from flooding for another 50 years. The Upper Witham Internal Drainage Board (IDB) is one of 130 such organisations across the country which, together, look after water levels in over 1.2 million hectares of low-lying…

Lanes works on M74 Completion project

03/12/2010

Lanes for Drains has carried out specialist drainage works for the £445 million, five-mile extension to Scotland’s M74 motorway. The three-year project, scheduled for completion in 2011, is being handled by Interlink M74 JV, a joint venture of Morrison Construction, Balfour Beatty, Morgan Est and Sir Robert McAlpine. Initially contracted to reline 900mm diameter culverts…