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Lanes Group plc has won a contract to provide facilities maintenance services for the London Underground. The five-year contract, with an option for a three-year extension, is the third maintenance contract awarded by Transport for London (TfL) to Lanes Group in four months. The contract covers all building maintenance work along underground lines, as well…
Water jetting and vacuuming technology supplied by Lanes Group has been used to help build a structure that will define high-tech – the new physics building at Oxford University. The new Beecroft Building will be home to some of the world’s leading scientists doing cutting edge research. Lanes was commissioned by principal contractor Laing O’Rourke…
Lanes completes drainage checks at major new biomedical institute Drainage engineers at Lanes Group have carried out the final CCTV drainage surveys at the Francis Crick Institute – destined to be one of the world’s most important biomedical research centres. The Crick, named after Francis Crick, a scientist who, along with James Watson, discovered the…
Lanes Group has been commissioned by leading construction contractor Laing O’Rourke to carry out drainage surveys and cleaning work at the UK’s newest NHS cancer treatment centre. The company’s drainage engineers have carried out CCTV camera surveys and high pressure jetting at the £160 million cancer centre, located at Guy’s Hospital in central London. When…
Drainage expertise from Lanes Group is helping the development of the latest health trend – getting fit on a budget. The company is supporting design and build specialist Sivil Group as it works with Pure Gym to open its fitness centres across the south east of England. Pure Gym is one of the fastest growing…
Culvert cleaning carried out by Lanes Group has cured flash flooding problems that had been causing serious traffic congestion on a busy East London road. During periods of heavy rain, the Dovers Corner roundabout on the A1306 at Rainham became submerged in water, causing long tailbacks. Havering Borough Council commissioned Lanes Group’s London depot, which…
Lanes Group is donating a life-saving defibrillator to a school in Essex as part of a national drive to help people in local communities who suffer potentially fatal cardiac arrests. Stifford Clays Primary School, in Grays, in Essex, is the second school in the UK to be given the equipment as part of the drainage and maintenance specialists’ ‘Protecting…
Hus Ibrahim of the Lanes Group’s London depot has been invited to a service to mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the capital which killed 52 people and injured hundreds more. Lanes is a facilities management contractor for London Underground (LU) and provides manpower, equipment and services for unusual situations on the tube network. Underground bosses…
