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Drainage and maintenance specialist Lanes Group has helped investigate stone culverts thought to be up to 300 years old at a National Trust stately home that is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the north east of England. The National Trust needed to make substantial changes to the drainage system at Grade I…
Lanes Utilities is removing a 10-tonne fatberg on behalf of Thames Water from a sewer under streets in West London. The 50-metre-long fatberg was so heavy that it weakened the sewer to the point that it began to collapse when Lanes engineers tried to remove it. Thames Water concluded the 70-year-old sewer had been damaged beyond repair and had…
Lanes Group drainage engineers in Sheffield have joined other contractors in helping carry out essential repairs and refurbishment work on a local church house. The team based at the Lanes depot, in Greenland, donated their time and services free of charge to help Spa View Community Church, in Spa View Road, Hackenthorpe, Sheffield. Lanes drainage…
Lanes Group has cured flood problems that had caused damage worth thousands of pounds at a builder’s merchant yard. Drainage engineers from the Lanes Bristol depot were called in to investigate persistent flooding at the premises run by a national building supplies chain. Lanes Bristol Operations Manager Andy Edwards said: “The flooding was affected the…
Lanes Group is proud to announce it is allying itself with a Lancastrian school taking part in an exciting War of the Roses sporting challenge. Haslingden High School in Haslingden, near Blackburn, has been selected to represent Lancashire in a War of the Roses rugby league match. Lanes Group has agreed to be the school’s…
Hundreds of staff have contributed to a record total for the latest Lanes Group annual charity campaign. Lanes employees responded wonderfully to the challenge and raised £4,061 and 10p for Cancer Research. As Lanes Group pledged to match all staff donations, pound for pound, the total raised during 2014 was £8,122.20, which is the best…
Lanes Group’s Utilities Division has the chance to win a prestigious Construction News Award for the second time in three years. It has been named as a finalist in the Construction News Health and Safety Initiative Award. Judges were impressed by a new digital point of works risk assessment tool, developed to support delivery of…
Lanes Group has been commissioned to survey the drainage system created to support what will become one of the most unusual surfing attractions in the world. Its engineers have been working at Surf Snowdonia, the first inland surfing centre in the UK, and a site that is pioneering an attempt to broaden access to surfing…
