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Lanes Group clears compost waste at giant recycling site

22/10/2015

Lanes Group drainage engineers used breathing apparatus to enter a section of one of the UK’s largest residual household waste treatment facilities and clear more than 170 tonnes of organic waste. A team from the Lanes Group depot at St Neots, in Cambridgeshire, was called in to carry out the nine-day project in the mechanical…

Lanes Group works with groundworks teams at prison site

22/10/2015

Lanes Group has won contracts to provide specialist drainage services for all five groundworks companies working on the development site for the new North Wales Prison. The company’s Chester depot is managing the work, which currently involves carrying out CCTV drainage surveys, drain cleansing and drain unblocking at the site on Wrexham Industrial Estate. The…

Digging holes in the road is not a patch on Lanes technology

21/10/2015

Lanes Group has proved its no dig drain repair technology is a much better solution than excavation when speed and cost-control is of the essence. A highway construction contractor called in drainage engineers at the Lanes depot in Chester after spikes were driven through a pipe by mistake. The damage to the surface water drain…

Lanes Group called in to survey Pierhead Building

15/10/2015

Lanes Group has carried out a CCTV drainage survey at one of the most famous historical buildings in Wales. Drainage engineers from the Lanes Cardiff depot were called in to survey the condition of all the roof downpipes on the Grade 1 Pier head Building. The Pier head is part of the National Assembly of…

Lanes Group’s David Nutton named as finalist in Finance Director Awards

09/10/2015

Lanes Group Finance Director David Nutton has been named as a finalist in the Yorkshire Finance Director Awards 2015. The awards, run in partnership with the Yorkshire Post, recognise and celebrate outstanding financial talent across the region. David was among more than 150 finance directors originally nominated, and has now been chosen as one of…

Lanes Group highly commended in Light Rail Awards

08/10/2015

Lanes Group’s Rail Division has been highly commended by judges in the Light Rail Awards for its work to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle survey service for rail operators. The announcement was made at an award ceremony at the Honourable Artillery Company in the City of London on Tuesday 7 October. Lanes Rail Division was…

Lanes Group goes digital with health and safety inspections

07/10/2015

Lanes Group has begun using a new mobile app that allows managers to digitally record findings of worksite health and safety inspections. The system allows inspections to be completed with no paper work, and builds up a database of information that can be analysed in different ways to fully understand health  safety and environmental issues….