Utilities News
Lanes Utilities Director Andy Brierley is convinced of the power of video to train his 1,200 staff – after a presentation given by 12-year-old Libertie Hansford. Libertie offered to come in to Lanes Utilities’ Customer Solutions Centre in Slough, Berkshire, to explain how You Tube could be used for online training courses. Andy was so…
Wastewater engineers from Lanes Group have completed their 1,000,000th drainage maintenance job for Thames Water. The company has totted up the total in little over four and a half years, as it has worked with Thames Water to keep its 68,000-mile network of drains and sewers across London and the Thames Valley flowing freely. The…
Every year, thousands of drains are blocked by fats and oils being poured down them. It’s a problem that plagues both homes and businesses, but it’s the restaurant and catering industry that falls victim most often. This is when companies like Lanes for Drains are called, and drainage engineers across the country spend time undoing…
Hard-paddling raft racers from Lanes Group plc have finished second in a Thames Water charity race – despite a crash on the start line. A Lanes Group team was taking part for the first time in the annual Thames Water raft race on the River Thames in Reading in aid of WaterAid. A total…
It was not so much ‘I do’ as ‘We can’. Lanes Group drainage engineers, working for Thames Water, have been praised for preventing a happy couple’s wedding turning from the best day to the worst day of their lives. They were called to the Bexley Heath Conservative Club to clear a sewer blockage just minutes…
Lanes Utilities is removing a 10-tonne fatberg on behalf of Thames Water from a sewer under streets in West London. The 50-metre-long fatberg was so heavy that it weakened the sewer to the point that it began to collapse when Lanes engineers tried to remove it. Thames Water concluded the 70-year-old sewer had been damaged beyond repair and had…
A Lanes Group engineer working for Thames Water has helped firefighters search for a pet dog after his owner saw him scamper down a disused drain pipe while chasing a fox. John Dale, who works for the Lanes Utilities Division on its wastewater network maintenance contract for Thames Water, was responding to an urgent request…
A jet vac giant that has proved its worth in the conflict zones of Afghanistan and Iraq is being brought to the UK for the first time by Lanes Group. The JHL 8×8 Recycler is a true behemoth of drainage management, and is designed to be the most capable all-terrain jet vac tanker in the world….
