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Drainage and utility specialist Lanes Group has won additional work to maintain drainage systems at warehouses operated by international fashion and sportswear brand JD Sports. The retailer, famous for its top footwear brands, is using Lanes expertise to maintain its main fashion, shoes and accessories distribution centre at the Kingsway business park, Rochdale, Greater Manchester….
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group have repaired a theatre’s drainage system in time for the launch of a specially socially distanced festive panto. They have installed new cast iron pipework at the Theatre Royal Plymouth so its pantomime, Robinson Crusoe, can go ahead without the risk of flooding. Like other venues across the UK, the…
A specialist wet well team from Lanes Group plc has supported pump engineers in repairing a sewer pumping station serving one of London’s largest shopping centre. They used their high volume vacuumation and jetting technology to clear debris from the pumping station at Westfield London in White City to allow the repair to be made….
A decade of drainage services delivered by Lanes Group plc during the building of Manchester’s Metrolink tram service is approaching the end of the line. Drainage engineers based at the Lanes depot in Eccles, Greater Manchester, have been working on the new Trafford Park Line which is nearing completion. The company has provided drainage teams…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc are supporting main contractors preparing for construction of the HS2 railway line into Birmingham. Teams from the drainage and utilities specialist’s Birmingham depot have been mapping and cleaning sewer assets along the high-speed rail route, the UK’s largest transport infrastructure project. They have been working for LM, a joint…
When an insurance customer needs urgent assistance with a water supply or drainage problem, they value the experts who will take control and sort it, quickly. That is where Lisa Kibbler’s team comes into its own. Lisa is the customer operations manager for the Lanes Group plc Insurance Division which provides drainage and clean water…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have used new pipe cleaning technology to solve persistent drain blockage problems at a nuclear power station. They used two machines – a new Picote mini cleaner and an electro-mechanical cutter – to clear drains in one of the two reactor halls at Heysham power station in Lancashire. Their…
Severn Trent wastewater engineers made the most unusual catch of the day by rescuing two fish from a sewer. Brothers Martin and Chas Jeffries realised ‘fins’ weren’t right when the fish appeared on their CCTV survey camera. But they didn’t get into a flap – instead they managed to pull the fish to a manhole…
