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Carillion Kier Joint Venture, working for Highways England, was turning the M6 between junctions 16 at Crewe and 19 at Knutsford into a Smart Motorway.
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With weather conditions becoming more volatile, and flash flooding of increasing concern to road users, local authorities are demanding additional assurance that roadside gullies are kept clear.
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Highways England had identified the 60-metre-long, three-metre-wide box culvert as needing priority maintenance work under its national flood prevention programme.
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Mitie was carrying out a major refurbishment of Clifton House. As part of this work, it commissioned Lanes Group plc to complete a comprehensive drain cleaning and refurbishment programme.
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Ringway, working for North Yorkshire County Council, commissioned Lanes Group plc to use its water jetting technology and expertise to help keep roads open and flood-free.
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Lanes Group plc was commissioned to CCTV survey and clean the internal drain system in the Pink Zone Building at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) Forester Hill Campus, as part of a £38m refit commissioned
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Mistakes happen and some developers cut corners. This can result in drainage problems such as foul water pipes being connected to surface water drains.
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Lanes Group has used its recycler jet vacuumation technology to clean surface water culverts on a landfill site in Southport, Lancashire
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A growing amount of ducting is being installed, in buildings and structures like bridges, to carry cables for data and power
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Lanes Group was commissioned to clean 26 drain stacks at Kettering General Hospital, as part of a ward refurbishment programme. New toilets, baths, showers and hand washing facilities were being installed..
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Chemicals manufacturer Stepan asked Lanes Group to support its strategy of continuously improving its spill containment procedures
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Lanes drainage engineers cleared a 160 metre sea outfall pipe by working in windows of opportunity created by rapidly changing sea levels.
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Facilities management specialist EMCOR commissioned Lanes Group to provide planned and preventative maintenance (PPM) support for all drainage assets at Southampton Airport.
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Lanes Group was commissioned to install a remote monitoring device in an oil and silt interceptor at a new park and ride car park built for an extension of the Metrolink tram network in Greater Manchester.
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The build-up of solidified masses of fats, oils and grease in sewers – known as FOG – costs tens of millions of pounds to clean up every year
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Together, Lanes Reline and NMCNomenca used ‘risk vs cost’ solutions to complete this complicated rehabilitation programme for Severn Trent Water
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When no contractors appeared willing to attempt a repair on a challenging six-metre section of sewer in Nottingham, the success of a full sewer rehabilitation programme was put at risk.
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Lanes Group has added a custom-built DISAB Centurion high performance vacuumation tanker to its advanced plant fleet.
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Interlink M74 Joint Venture, a company set up to build a new section of motorway, commissioned Lanes Group to reline a 25m culvert under the M74 motorway near Glasgow, in Scotland
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Following a previous drainage problem, Blackburn Rovers FC appointed Lanes Group to carry out regular maintenance checks and repair work at its Ewood Park Stadium and at the club’s training village
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Lanes’ new JHL Combi Superflex 415 Recycler has shown it is more than a match for some of the biggest and most difficult blockages
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Interlink M74 Joint Venture, a company set up to build a new section of motorway, commissioned Lanes Group to reline a 25m culvert under the M74 motorway near Glasgow, in Scotland
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Duerr’s has been making jam since 1881. It has operated a factory in Manchester, producing peanut butter, honey, jam and marmalade, since 1890.
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Lanes Reline was commissioned by Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions (BBUSL), working on behalf of United Utilities, to reline an egg-shaped Victorian sewer in Northgate, in Blackburn
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The new 131-metre Kingmoor Road Bridge over the West Coast Rail Mainline almost did not open on time because of a problem with the beany block drainage system.
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Lanes Group was commissioned to survey and clean a 4km surface water drainage pipe leading to the River Tees at a former chromium plant
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Edge Transport is a leading pallet distribution, transport, storage and warehousing company in Wrexham, North Wales.
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Lanes Group successfully relined a mains sewer that was particularly badly damaged at one end
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Lanes Group designed a bespoke reporting system for Mitie Property Services after Mitie won a maintenance contract for Birmingham City Council’s housing and commercial building portfolio
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Lanes Group was commissioned to carry out a major traverse of a culvert linked to the West Coast Main Line in Cheshire. The culvert had been identified as a source for diesel fuel polluting a brook.
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East Sussex County Council needed to know the location, connections and condition of a major culverted water course through Eastbourne
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A suburb of Basingstoke become flooded by rising groundwater after a long period of very heavy rain, causing 80 homes to be evacuated.
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East Sussex County Council needed to know the location, connections and condition of a major culverted water course through Eastbourne
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Lanes engineers completed an “intensely technical” drainage excavation project for national hire firm Mabey Hire.
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Lanes engineers cleared 60 tonnes of silt, stones and rocks that had blocked a large culvert under the A55 dual carriageway near Conwy in North Wales.
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Lanes Group was commissioned to renovate a 3km stretch of combined trunk sewer, with the aim of reducing excessive flow rates that were causing increased spills from the combined sewer overflows (CSO).
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In a 15 week project, Lanes Group’s Glasgow depot successfully installed two interceptor tanks at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock. The work required a substantial excavation, as the pipework the tanks had
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Bury MBC commissioned Lanes Group to rehabilitate a culvert as part of a major renovation of Broad Oak High School.
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Aunt Bessie’s commissioned Lanes Group to carry out a full survey and cleanse of the drainage system at its Yorkshire Pudding factory in Hull. The Lanes team worked closely with the factory’s site managemen
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Civil engineering and transport technology consortium Taylor Woodrow Alstom was commissioned to build a Phase 2 extension of the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) tramline.
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Lanes Group was commissioned to survey, clean and rehabilitate cast iron drainage pipes as part of a £10.6 million refurbishment of the Grade 1 Listed John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester.
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Lanes Group was commissioned to rehabilitate the drainage systems for 866 homes for elderly people in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
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Duerr’s has been making jam since 1881. It has operated a factory in Manchester, producing peanut butter, honey, jam and marmalade, since 1890. During a Christmas shut-down, engineers opened a manhole and d
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UTAS provides a broad range of high-technology products and services to the global aerospace market. The company commissioned Lanes Group to reline the entire surface water drainage system of its servicing
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Lanes Group was commissioned to reline surface water sewers along the route of new track being built to extend the Metrolink tram network in Greater Manchester at a cost of £1.5 billion.
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Poorly maintained drainage systems can cause severe problems for schools, even resulting in closures that disrupt education and causing serious childcare difficulties for parents.
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SSE (Scottish Southern Energy) commissioned Lanes Group to carry out a three-week programme of drainage maintenance at the main power station in the Shetland Islands.
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The Blue Reef Aquarium needed to clean an algae bloom in its seal enclosure.
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Laing O’Rourke commissioned Lanes Group to support a £169m scheme to cure one of the UK’s worst congestion hotspots. The project was to widen the A453 from Junction 24 of the M1 to the A52
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Surf Snowdonia is a revolutionary sport and leisure attraction that brings surfing to Snowdonia National Park. It is home to the world’s first publically-accessible Wavegarden® surfing lagoon
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Highways England had commissioned a programme of works to upgrade the A46 near Nottingham, including the section that passes Bingham.
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Energy company E.ON commissioned demolition specialists Brown and Mason to decommission the 2,000 megawatt Kingsnorth dual-fired coal and oil power station, which ceased generating electricity
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The National Trust wanted to reduce the pressure on the drainage system at Grade 1 listed Wallington Hall.
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Construction firm T Richard Jones faced a difficult drainage problem while building the 1.7km-long Morfa distributor road from Swansea’s Liberty Station to New Cut Road.
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Facilities management company Environment & Power Technology (EPT) had to respond urgently to the flooding, in late December, of an underground car park at the Greater Manchester offices
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Solutia UK, part of Eastman Chemicals, commissioned Lanes Group to line a 600mm diameter pipe that takes surface water from the production area to a holding tank before being pumped to the on-site effluent
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Fibre-optic cable installer Avonline Broadband needed to clean thousands of metres of cabling pipe which had become clogged with silt and mud during flooding caused by extreme weather events.
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FVB Joint Venture, a partnership of Farrans Construction and Victor Buyck Steel Construction, are building a new £117.5 million bridge in Sunderland called the New Wear Crossing.
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A new cable stay bridge is being built to create a second road crossing of the Mersey. Lanes Group has been selected as the sole provider of specialist drainage cleaning, surveying and repair services for t
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Lanes Group plc supported Highways England’s main contractor, Costain, in the development of a new 4.5-mile section of the A556 trunk road between Knutsford and Bowdon.
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Sodexo Justice Services, which runs four prisons in the UK, commissioned us to carry out a comprehensive drainage survey of Forest Bank Prison, at Swinton, Salford. The Category B prison can hold up to 1,46
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Lanes Group was commissioned by Scottish Water to clean and line a combined sewer in the centre of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, right alongside the River Ness.
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Lanes Group is using its drainage technology to deliver pipe and tank cleaning services to renewable energy companies. Our vacuumation and water jetting technology is ideally suited to cleaning pipes and ta
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Trojan Construction is one of the key contractors used by KFC, the global fast food brand, to build its new restaurants in the UK.
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Bailey Garner commissioned Lanes Group to carry out a programme of works to fully upgrade the drainage system at The Polesworth School, one of the top secondary schools in Warwickshire.