Technology and Innovation News
A construction company had Lanes for Drains ‘no dig’ technology and expertise on the shopping list when it needed to urgently solve a drainage problem just before the opening of a new supermarket. Lincolnshire-based civil engineering firm Britcon called in Lanes for Drains, the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, to carry out a pre-handover survey…
Lanes for Drains engineers in Derby have used poly-pigs to root out a blocked gas main that builders feared could delay the completion of a new school. They were not the porky kind of pigs that go oink oink, but the plastic ones, because a poly-pig is a device that is used to clean out…
Tom Grove has come home to join the team at the Lanes for Drains St Neots depot as the area development manager for East Anglia. Tom had been carrying out the same role at our Rainham depot, covering London and Essex, promoting Lanes’ drain unblocking, drainage repairs and drain relining services. He is extremely pleased…
Engineers at Lanes for Drains Plymouth worked round the clock in a race against time to carry out a major repair on a pipe at one of Cornwall’s largest food factories. They successfully completed the job by working 24 hours a day over a weekend, allowing full food production to resume on Monday morning –…
Lanes for Drains engineers are using their heads when it comes to best practice for health and safety – because vital information that could help save their lives is now kept on their hats. Lanes, the UK’s largest independent specialist drainage company, has invested in an emergency ID system that works by storing personal health…
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 Lanes Group has developed a simple yet highly innovative safety device that has the potential to transform working at height across the rail industry – significantly improving safety, productivity and staff satisfaction. The new rail safety strop is attached to the rail, acting as a restraint point, to stop staff working at height from entering unsafe areas and…
Lanes for Drains has been named as a finalist for the prestigious Construction News Health and Safety Award 2012. Health and Safety is one of the most competitive categories in the Construction News Awards, considered by many to be the highest accolades in the industry. Lanes for Drains had to put together a 1,000 word…
