Reline and Renovation News
Drainage engineers have carried out a comprehensive upgrade of surface water and foul drains at a Midland power station by using no-dig lining technology to renovate pipes. The Lanes Group plc teams installed 11 pipe liners and 40 local structural point repairs across the drainage system at Corby Power Station in Northamptonshire. The work was…
Sheffield City Council commissioned Lanes Group plc to carry out the planned drain maintenance work at Grade I Listed Sheffield Town Hall. Drainage engineers from the Lanes Sheffield depot have installed 64 structural liners in pipes beneath the 120-year-old civic building in the centre of the city. The cure in place pipelining (CIPP) technique, often…
Lanes Group is implementing the first project to extensively line highway drainage pipes as part of a Smart Motorway project. It has been commissioned by the Carillion Kier Joint Venture, working for Highways England, to install ultraviolet (UV) liners during the M6 Junction 16-19 Smart Motorway scheme between Crewe and Knutsford, in Cheshire. The Smart…
Using the sewer as a high voltage cable duct might have seemed like a good idea at the time. The contractors working at a power station had smashed through the side of the sewer pipe, then fed the 3.5-inch diameter cable through the hole they created, down the sewer, then out through another hole on…
Deteriorating drainage systems in blocks of flats can be a prime cause for damp, and a major facilities management headache if blocked or damaged pipes are hard to reach. Drainage engineers from Lanes Group’s Chester depot demonstrated that the company’s remote access repair systems are at the forefront of providing the answer to these challenges….
Lanes Group has delivered a programme of specialist drainage services to support a drainage improvement project on the A36 near Warminster. The work has been completed by drainage engineers from the Lanes Bristol depot on behalf of Skanska, working for Highways England. The upgrade has been completed to improve the drainage along this busy section…
A sewer rehabilitation team from Lanes Group has met challenging working timeframes to complete a project that has reduced sewer flooding risks in a Scottish city. The company was commissioned, by Scottish Water, to clean and line a combined sewer downstream of the Fisherman’s Car Park close to Inverness town centre, and right alongside the…
Lanes Group has installed its longest ultra violet light-cured pipe liner to date in a deep culvert considered at high risk of collapse. The liner, which was 202 metres long and weighed 8 tonnes, was installed in a surface water culvert for Caerphilly County Borough Council, in South Wales. The 750mm diameter concrete pipe had…
