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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…
Lanes Group plc has been announced as a finalist in three categories for the Water Industry Achievement Awards. The national drainage and utilities specialist is in the running to win awards for Contractor of the Year, Health and Safety Initiative, and Best Use of Existing Technology. What are the Water Industry Achievement Awards? The Water Industry…
It’s alive I tell you! A small part of the “monster” Whitechapel fatberg, removed by Lanes Group plc on behalf of Thames Water, has gone on display at the Museum of London. London Museum Seven thousand visitors visited Fatberg! in the first weekend to view the last remaining chunks of the giant mass of fat,…
Wastewater engineers working for Lanes Group used heat generated by the light on their CCTV survey camera to keep a dog warm before digging down to rescue it from a drain. Spencer the cocker spaniel had been trapped beneath a sports pitch for more than 36 hours when he was released through a hole smashed…
