Manchester News
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group have carried out a comprehensive drainage survey at a privately-run prison. Sodexo Justice Services commissioned Lanes Group’s Manchester depot to carry out the work at the category B Forest Bank prison, at Swinton, Salford, which can hold 1,460 male prisoners. Alistair Culpan, Assistant Facilities Manager for the prison, said:…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group have been doing some drain spotting, not train spotting, at Bolton Railway Station to help prepare for a £1 billion electrification of rail services. The comprehensive line and level survey across all platforms at the station in Station Street, Bolton, was carried out over five nights. A two-person CCTV drainage…
Close attention to detail and a determination to continuously improve have contributed to Lanes Group winning two customer service awards from global insurance provider AXA. The company has won the AXA Assistance national award for being the UK contractor with the lowest percentage of upheld complaints (all perils) in 2015-2016. It has also won the…
Construction of a second Metrolink tram line through the heart of Manchester city centre is being supported by CCTV drainage surveys and sewer cleansing work delivered by Lanes Group. The national drainage and maintenance solutions specialist is plotting existing sewers and drains along the line of the 1.3km Second City Crossing (2CC). Drainage teams from…
Lanes Group’s jet vac technology has been put to use to carry out the urgent clearance of flood water from an underground car park used by HM Revenue and Customs. The basement car park was flooded with nearly 6,000 cubic metres of water when the River Irwell burst its banks due to record levels of…
Lanes Group drainage maintenance teams are working around the clock to help communities in Yorkshire recover from flooding. The company has 16 specialist vehicles and more than 30 drainage engineers working in flood-hit areas across the county. More than 6,700 homes and hundreds of businesses in the north of England have been affected by the…
Lanes Group has cleared 90 tonnes of silt and rubble from a large culvert to allow civil engineers to carry out a structural survey. A team of drainage engineers from the company’s depot in Eccles, Greater Manchester, worked on the seven-week project in Etruria, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. Lanes Group, the national drainage and maintenance solution specialist, was commissioned…
Lanes Group drainage expertise is being used in major plan to regenerate an inner city area of Greater Manchester. The company’s engineers are carrying out a comprehensive package of drainage surveys on behalf of Pendleton Together, in Salford. Pendleton Together is a regeneration project launched in 2012 that will create 1,600 new homes and refurbish…
