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New health and safety manager aims to take standards to next level

19/06/2015

Lanes Group has appointed Paul McParland as its new health, safety and environment manager to build on the company’s already good safety record and take standards to the next level. Paul joins the drainage and maintenance solutions provider from Veolia Environmental Services, where he was a divisional health, safety, environment and quality manager. Lanes Group Operations Director Allan Wallis…

Lanes Group keeps tram plan on track with innovative sewer reline project

18/06/2015

Lanes Group has deployed an innovative combination of trenchless drain rehabilitation techniques to support the development of a £570m new tramline in Nottingham. A combination of ultraviolet and hot cure pipe relining was used in a sewer strengthening project that won Lanes a UKSTT Renovation Award 2014 (under £250,000). The Lanes Reline Division team had to carry…

Lanes Group wins biggest rail bridge painting project

17/06/2015

London Underground has commissioned Lanes Group to paint a major railway bridge on the Jubilee Line in West London. The four-month project to strip and paint the 100-year-old bridge on the line between Kilburn and West Hampstead will require enough paint to cover an area the size of 30 tennis courts – or one and a quarter full-sized…

Lanes completes drainage maintenance at Shetland power station

14/06/2015

Lanes Group has completed a three week programme of drainage maintenance at the Shetland Islands’ main power station. The work at Lerwick Power Station, run by Scottish Southern Energy (SSE), included a comprehensive CCTV drainage survey of the site, drainage jetting and pipe patch lining. A team of eight drainage engineers from Lanes Group’s Aberdeen depot travelled by…

Lanes and London Underground line up track drainage “revolution”

14/06/2015

Lanes Group is working in partnership with London Underground to test technology that aims to solve one of the most notorious drainage maintenance problems on the Tube network. The company is trialling a vacuumation system called Big Brute on the Metropolitan Line north of Baker Street, which is acknowledged as having the most challenging track drainage system on London…

Lanes Group drainage surveys support spine road development

04/06/2015

Lanes Group has been commissioned to clean and survey the drainage system for a new spine road being built to join hundred homes and the local communities together on the site of a former steelworks. The road is being built by civil engineering contractor McPhillips (Wellington) Ltd at the former Brymbo steelworks site in Wrexham, north Wales. Local…