West London News
Drainage and wastewater service specialist Lanes Group plc is using a roadway lightshow to warn other road users, and cyclists in particular, to keep a safe distance at road junctions. Its division delivering services for Thames Water is testing the system that activates as the HGV vehicle turns left at junctions – the moment, collision…
A field manager working for Lanes Group plc has initiated the opening of the first ever military memorial at a Thames Water sewage treatment works and possibly at such a facility anywhere in the UK. What might be the smallest garden of remembrance in Britain has been created next to the Lanes depot based at…
Lanes Group plc has been awarded construction contracts by CityFibre as part of a £1.5billion investment to roll out full fibre broadband in 27 towns and cities across the UK. The utility and drainage specialist is one of 15 contractors awarded regional contracts to carry out the work that will provide full fibre broadband to…
After trying to catch a rat whilst out for a walk, Olive, a Bedlington terrier, chased a rodent into a waste outlet pipe. After not being able to retrieve Olive, the owner contacted Thames Water for some assistance. Engineers James Lewis and Jack Gale, who are most accustom to unblocking fatbergs, didn’t think they would…
Drainage and utility specialist Lanes Group plc has won a coveted water industry innovation award for its development of the world’s first virtual reality team training theatre. The company has won the Institute of Water of Innovation Award 2020 for the South East Region for leading the development of virtual reality (VR) capability in a…
Pictured at the Time to Talk cake stall are, from the left: Courtney McDonagh, Puja Sharma, HSQE Co-ordinator Romina Ejaz, and CCTV quality assurance co-ordinator Rosa Wilk, who is also a mental health first aider. It was time to talk and time to eat cake for Lanes colleagues working for Thames Water. Mental health first…
CCTV drainage survey technology has been put to a new use – helping inspect vital steam-generating equipment operated by one of the UK’s largest laundry services. Clean Services called in a CCTV drainage survey team from Lanes Group plc to obtain video images of pipework inside the machine at its laundry on Slough Trading Estate…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have been praised for their diligence in responding to a drain blockage at a hotel chain HQ that threatened to flood a kitchen. Kitchen staff at the Hilton Hotels international offices in Watford, Hertfordshire, had been experiencing drainage problems – so its site facilities management partner, Integral, called Lanes…
