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Lanes Groups Rail Division has won a contract as one of 24 specialist suppliers who will carry out work worth £330m to upgrade 70 London Underground stations, making them fit for the next decade. Lanes was selected as part of a new approach by Transport for London to major infrastructure projects to ensure all work…
Lanes Group has won two prestigious national awards in less than a week after the company developed an innovative picture-based guide that is transforming the way it sets workplace standards and trains staff. The company, the UK’s largest independent supplier of underground pipeline and utility services, first won the Health & Safety Excellence Award at…
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 Group is demonstrating the vital importance of using effective transport management systems when delivering high quality, sustainable services by clocking up record vehicle mileages at the start of 2014. On just one day, Tuesday 7 January, the entire fleet of 213 Specialist utility vehicles delivering on the company’s Waste Water Infrastructure Contract in London…
The theme of this year’s World Water Day is water and energy, and a major objective of the day is to ‘raise awareness of the inter-linkages between water and energy’. To help support this objective we have created an infographic that looks at how biogas made from waste and waste water, can meet the growing…
The safe management of risks is of paramount concern for Lanes utility engineers – and that applies to bulls too! Drainage engineers from Lanes’ Utilities Division, based at Stafford, had to share a field with a herd of curious cattle, including a bull, which turned out to be a big softy. The team was surveying…
Christmas is quickly approaching and with it comes the anticipation of Christmas dinner! However, take an extra minute or two this festive period to consider how you dispose of the excess fat and grease; especially whilst preparing the dinner and when washing up after it. We’ve all done it – rinsed the fat and oil…
Lanes Group engineers have been called in to survey and clean the drainage system for Buxton Pump Room as part of an ambitious plan to create only the second genuine spa hotel in the UK in more than 100 years. Renovation of the pump room, a grade 2 listed building, is part of the £35…
