Reline and Renovation News
The Lanes Group is the first sewer rehabilitation specialist to be awarded WRc Approved™ certification for the installation of a WRc Approved™ patch drain repair system. It is also only the second company to gain WRc Approved™ certification for the installation of a full-length liner, with its UV cure, CIPP, manhole-to-manhole system. The commendations followed…
Lanes Group has used its innovative drainage technology to carry out the first ever reline repair of a refuse chute in a residential tower block in England. Its engineers reached for the skies instead of going underground to refurbish two chutes at the 13-storey Devonshire Tower in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. The technique, pioneered by…
Lanes pulled off a tricky drain reinforcement to keep Manchester’s multi-million pound tram network extension scheme on track. The no-dig specialist lined 54-metres of sewer with only a single point of access, instead of the usual two manholes, using a technique known as a ‘blind shot’. Wherever new tramlines are laid, the utility pipes running…
Lanes for Drains has proved that the innovative application of drainage expertise and technology means it need not be a bridge too far when it comes to installing 21st Century communications systems. Engineers from the company, the UK’s largest independent drainage specialists, laid fibre optic cables underneath a 60 metre long bridge. QinetiQ, the company that…
The UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, Lanes Group Plc has scooped two prestigious industry awards at the 2012 United Kingdom Society for Trenchless Technology (UKSTT) dinner, with one of the accolades going to the group’s Castlebrae Drainage who are based in Glasgow, which won the renovation small category under £250,000. The UKSTT’s annual awards promote excellence in trenchless technology and recognise the…
Lanes has proved its worth as a long-term signing for premier league football club Blackburn Rovers, by discovering — and remedying — a collapsed flood defence drain which could have threatened the pitch. Lanes has carried out regular maintenance checks to the Ewood Park drainage system since 2007, when it was called in to deal…
Lanes for Drains has helped jam manufacturer Duerr’s out of a sticky situation. The company had thought it was facing a 3-month shutdown to fix a damaged drain at its Manchester factory, but Lanes was able to reline the 150mm diameter process pipe in just 48 hours. Duerr’s, which has been making jam since 1881,…
Following last year’s win in the industry Oscars, the Lanes Group has triumphed again in the United Kingdom Society for Trenchless Technology’s (UKSTT) 2010 awards — this time with not just one, but two Claret jugs to add to its trophy cabinet. At the dinner on 23 April, a doubly delighted Andy Brierley, MD of…
