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Unblocktober.org Lanes Group is delighted to announce the launch of Unblocktober, the world’s first month-long national campaign and awareness month to improve the health of our drains, sewers, watercourses and seas – driven completely by you, the British public. If you want to help reduce the amount of plastic entering our seas, rivers and…
Drainage expertise delivered by Lanes Group plc has supported the opening of London Stansted Airport’s first multi-storey car park. Lanes teams provided CCTV drainage survey, water jetting drain cleaning and pipe repair services for the main contractor, BAM Construction. The 2,700 space, six storey car park boosts the number of short-stay car parking spaces available…
A drainage team from Lanes Group plc have used powerful water jetting and vacuumation equipment to clear the outfall of a pipe linking two sites defined by icons of British transport technology. They removed six tonnes of rubble, shingle and shells blocking a sea outfall located at a former hovercraft terminal in Ramsgate Kent. The…
Drainage and wastewater contractor Lanes Group plc has appointed clean water expert Paul Henderson to lead strategic sales for its sewer rehabilitation and lining operations. Paul is the new Business Development Manager for the Lanes Sewer Rehabilitation and Lining Division. A key previous role was Business Development Director for one of the UK’s leading clean…
Wastewater engineers from Lanes Group plc are working with colleagues at Thames Water to keep water flowing around a giant ‘concreteberg’ blocking a sewer in North London. The giant plug of concrete, thought to be up to 100 metres long and weighing up to 105 tonnes, the same as a blue whale or 20 elephants,…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have completed a major sewer cleansing and surveying programme in Cardiff to enhance protection against flash flooding. Cardiff City Council commissioned a specialist team from the Lanes Cardiff depot to carry out the work over a three-month period in Pontcanna to the west of the city centre. Two jet…
A drain rehabilitation team from Lanes Group plc has used no-dig lining to renew underground foul and production pipes at a large cheese factory. The drainage engineers installed seven point liners, see picture above, and a 12-metre full liner in pipes at the factory during a weekend shutdown. Matt Banks, Area Development Manager for the…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have spent a week delivering specialist pipe surveying and cleaning services to customers in Orkney. Customers praised the Lanes team for the support provided to clear a heavily-contaminated pipe, water jet drains around a major reservoir and survey sewers at a new housing estate. Five operatives from the Lanes…
