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Lanes Group plc has won a prestigious Utility Week Award for developing a ground-breaking wellbeing programme that combines digital app technology and practical help for colleagues in need. The company, the UK’s largest independent drainage and wastewater maintenance specialist, won the Health and Safety Award in the national industry awards at a ceremony held on…
Teams of volunteers from Lanes Utilities have shown their wild sides to support environmental conservation. They have taken part in two Wild Work Days in support of the London Wild Life Trust. Lanes Utilities, part of Lanes Group plc, is the wastewater network services maintenance partner for Thames Water. It is responsible for surveying, unblocking,…
Lanes Group plc has been shortlisted for the prestigious Construction News Specialist Health Safety and Wellbeing Award. The drainage specialist has been named as a finalist for its pioneering work to use digital app technology to monitor workforce happiness and provide professional wellbeing support for colleagues who ask for it. The Wellbeing App and Practitioner…
Out of sight and out of mind is a common expression which applies perfectly to a drainage system – so much so that the location and connections of many underground pipes are a real mystery. That is why drainage engineers at Lanes Group plc are often called upon to investigate and trace sewers, drains and…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc are helping reduce the risk of localised flooding on Manchester roads through a comprehensive programme of planned gully cleaning. Lanes has begun work on a contract, awarded by Manchester City Council, to clean all 58,000 roadside gullies in 18 wards across the south of the city over the next…
Picture by Nilafion. Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have been praised for their fast response to help clear water pumps supporting the drainage system of a major road tunnel. Highways England called for assistance from the team at Lanes Plymouth to vacuum water from a sump containing drainage pumps at the Saltash Tunnel. The…
Image courtesy of: Mat Fascione / Lincs Offshore Wind Farm / CC BY-SA 2.0 Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have carried out high pressure water jetting to clean tanks at an electricity sub-station for a giant off-shore wind farm in the North Sea. The tanks have been installed to collect and store surface water…
A pipe lining team from Lanes Group plc has rehabilitated a culvert six miles along a railway line in just one 10-hour track possession. AMCO, working for Network Rail Scotland, commissioned Lanes to rehabilitate a 900mm-diametre circular culvert on Rannoch Moor, north of Bridge of Orchy in Argyle and Bute, Scotland. The project to strengthen…
