Sewer Rehabilitation News
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 used Ultracoat, a revolutionary waterproofing rehabilitation system, to help a Drainage Board keep its patch of Lincolnshire free from flooding for another 50 years. The Upper Witham Internal Drainage Board (IDB) is one of 130 such organisations across the country which, together, look after water levels in over 1.2 million hectares of low-lying…
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…
Despite being slap bang in a town centre’s busy shopping area, a sewer rehabilitation project carried out by Lanes for Drains and Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions (BBUS) for United Utilities, was a resounding success thanks to a concerted programme of communications and meticulous traffic management. Every potentially affected business and shop, in MP Jack Straw’s…
Lanes won the United Kingdom Society for Trenchless Technology’s renovation award at the 15th annual UKSTT dinner and awards ceremony on 24 April. The industry accolade was presented for Lanes’ no dig rehabilitation of a pressurised main sewer beneath the Conwy Bridge in North Wales — a project thought to be the first of its…
Lanes for Drains notched up a double industry first by relining the foul water main suspended beneath the Conwy road bridge in North Wales. The sewer, which serves the historic castle town, was a pressurised pumped sewage main — a type which has not been relined before. And, to add to the challenge, the 300mm…
