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Lanes Group has installed its longest ultra violet light-cured pipe liner to date in a deep culvert considered at high risk of collapse. The liner, which was 202 metres long and weighed 8 tonnes, was installed in a surface water culvert for Caerphilly County Borough Council, in South Wales. The 750mm diameter concrete pipe had…
Lanes Group has achieved, through re-auditing, the Bronze accreditation for its UK transport fleet under the Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS). The company first achieved FORS Bronze in 2014 and successfully passed its annual audit in March – demonstrating that it sets nationally recognised safety and operational management standards. The FORS scheme is operated by Transport…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group have swapped sewer pipes for digital ducting to help create the UK’s superfast broadband network. A team from the Lanes depot at Eastleigh in Hampshire has spent 10 months supporting a broadband company install the vital internet and telephony cabling in Dorset and Hampshire. Working for Avonline Broadband, they cleaned…
Culvert cleaning carried out by Lanes Group has cured flash flooding problems that had been causing serious traffic congestion on a busy East London road. During periods of heavy rain, the Dovers Corner roundabout on the A1306 at Rainham became submerged in water, causing long tailbacks. Havering Borough Council commissioned Lanes Group’s London depot, which…
Construction of a second Metrolink tram line through the heart of Manchester city centre is being supported by CCTV drainage surveys and sewer cleansing work delivered by Lanes Group. The national drainage and maintenance solutions specialist is plotting existing sewers and drains along the line of the 1.3km Second City Crossing (2CC). Drainage teams from…
Proving it is always ready to push back boundaries, Lanes Group’s Reline Division has carried out its first project to rehabilitate a pipe using a chemically-resistant UV liner. A team from the national pipe rehabilitation service, based in Manchester, installed three UV liners, with a combined length of 200 metres, at a plant run by…
Lanes Group has been commissioned to investigate the health of the drainage arteries of the Bristol Royal Infirmary. As part of the latest step in major refurbishment programme, Lanes Group has been commissioned to carry out a comprehensive CCTV drainage survey across the site. The results of the survey will help the hospital’s estates department…
Lanes Group’s jet vac technology has been put to use to carry out the urgent clearance of flood water from an underground car park used by HM Revenue and Customs. The basement car park was flooded with nearly 6,000 cubic metres of water when the River Irwell burst its banks due to record levels of…
