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Lanes Utilities Director Andy Brierley is convinced of the power of video to train his 1,200 staff – after a presentation given by 12-year-old Libertie Hansford. Libertie offered to come in to Lanes Utilities’ Customer Solutions Centre in Slough, Berkshire, to explain how You Tube could be used for online training courses. Andy was so…
Top school gets Grade A drains thanks to Lanes A drainage team from Lanes Group has carried out a comprehensive programme of drain cleaning and repairs at one of Warwickshire’s top secondary schools. The drainage engineers have surveyed and cleaned hundreds of metres of pipework and completed dozens of repairs at The Polesworth School, in…
Lanes Group is launching a series of ‘Listen and Learn’ talks to support the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes for professional service providers. The talks are designed to add value to the learning and understanding of professionals, such as architects, surveyors, civil engineers, and service engineers, about drainage repair, rehabilitation and management. They will also…
Even if your company is armed with decades of expertise and countless excellent ideas, it may only take a fresh face and new way of thinking to turn your own outlook upside down – in the best way, of course! With this in mind, Lanes Group prides itself on staying open-minded, and as part of…
We all like to think we only use as much water as we need to, but when we leave home for the first time it’s all too easy to forget about how much we waste. Lanes asked 18 to 24 year old university and college students about their water usage habits, by quizzing them on…
Lanes Group has been praised for its fast action in response to drainage fault at a Scottish university that resulted in sewage building up inside a deep sump chamber. Facility managers at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen said the Lanes team’s rapid response helped make sure the drainage pump failure was resolved with minimum disruption to everyday activity. Ian…
Lanes Group has been selected to carry out drainage surveys and remedial repairs at schools in Birmingham. Galliford Try has commissioned the work as part of its full facilities management service to 11 schools across Birmingham. Engineers from the Lanes Birmingham depot at Minworth have carried out camera surveys, cleaning and remedial work at three…
Lanes engineers have been praised for quickly getting to the root of a drain blockage at a college involving a build up of cooking fat – because the real culprit was a tree. The team from Lanes Group’s regional depot in Bristol was called in to investigate a waste water drain blockage at a higher…
