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Transport for London auditors have praised Lanes Group’s Rail Division for a new digital workflow system that is helping keep teams safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have described the system as representing “good practice” while giving Lanes Rail a risk-to-service score of zero, the lowest possible risk profile, following an intensive five-day audit. Lanes…
A specialist wet well team from Lanes Group plc has supported pump engineers in repairing a sewer pumping station serving one of London’s largest shopping centre. They used their high volume vacuumation and jetting technology to clear debris from the pumping station at Westfield London in White City to allow the repair to be made….
After trying to catch a rat whilst out for a walk, Olive, a Bedlington terrier, chased a rodent into a waste outlet pipe. After not being able to retrieve Olive, the owner contacted Thames Water for some assistance. Engineers James Lewis and Jack Gale, who are most accustom to unblocking fatbergs, didn’t think they would…
Six colleagues from Lanes Group plc have joined nearly 1,000 others in a giant sleep out to raise money for homeless young people. They braved wintry weather, wind and heavy rain to spend the night sleeping on the hard ground at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London. The Sleep Out was one of…
Drainage expertise delivered by Lanes Group plc has supported the opening of London Stansted Airport’s first multi-storey car park. Lanes teams provided CCTV drainage survey, water jetting drain cleaning and pipe repair services for the main contractor, BAM Construction. The 2,700 space, six storey car park boosts the number of short-stay car parking spaces available…
It’s thought to weigh as much as 20 elephants and has led to the coining of a new name for an unauthorised way to block a sewer. Yes, the ‘concreteberg’ is still in place under a street in North London. Wastewater engineers from Lanes Group plc, which maintains sewers for Thames Water, are making sure…
Wastewater engineers from Lanes Group plc are working with colleagues at Thames Water to keep water flowing around a giant ‘concreteberg’ blocking a sewer in North London. The giant plug of concrete, thought to be up to 100 metres long and weighing up to 105 tonnes, the same as a blue whale or 20 elephants,…
A more responsive way to manage asset maintenance introduced by Lanes Group plc is reducing faults in public and staff toilets on the London Underground – improving the quality of service for rail customers. The new Smart Maintenance approach is also greatly reducing the number of hours taken to carry out essential repairs and improving…
