Reline and Renovation News
Drain lining technology from Lanes Group plc is being used to rehabilitate highway drains while helping hard-pressed maintenance budgets stretch further. Highway chiefs are switching from excavating and replacing defective drains to lining them because the no-dig approach is proving safer and less costly. Effective maintenance of roadside drainage is a key priority for highway…
In what is believed to be a UK first, Lanes Group plc has carried out an innovative repair of a siphon pipe beneath a main railway line. Its sewer rehabilitation and lining division has used a new compact and ultra-thin packer to reach damaged sections beyond a bend in the pipe beneath the Great Western…
Specialist drainage services delivered by Lanes Group plc have been deployed to support a major flood protection scheme in Leeds. CCTV drainage surveys carried out by a team from the Lanes Leeds depot along a flood-risk river identified surface water pipes that needed to be fitted with flood valves. Leeds City Council, in partnership with…
A pipe lining team from Lanes Group plc has rehabilitated a culvert six miles along a railway line in just one 10-hour track possession. AMCO, working for Network Rail Scotland, commissioned Lanes to rehabilitate a 900mm-diametre circular culvert on Rannoch Moor, north of Bridge of Orchy in Argyle and Bute, Scotland. The project to strengthen…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have carried out a comprehensive programme of drain rehabilitation to renew pipes serving homes in Plymouth. Teams from the Lanes Plymouth depot uses the full array of their pipe renovation services to complete the project on behalf of the city’s largest social housing landlord. A CCTV drainage survey, also…
The UK’s largest independent drainage and utility specialist, Lanes Group plc, has invested over £1million in new pipe lining technology. The purchase of three new dual-core ultraviolet light cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) lining systems significantly adds to the company’s sewer rehabilitation capability. Two of the UV systems will line pipes with diameters from 150mm to 1600mm. The…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have carried out a programme of no-dig drain repairs at a primary care hospital in North Yorkshire, restoring the system to good health. In a process akin to keyhole surgery on the human body, they inserted 52 ‘patch liners’ in underground pipes at East Cleveland Primary Care Hospital in…
Cured in place pipe lining has come a long way since the days Simon Bull and his colleagues called the local ice wholesaler to stop their liner becoming the world’s largest and strongest flattened drinking straw. He is Lanes Group plc’s lining manager, responsible for directing teams that implement some of the UK’s most challenging…
