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Lanes Group is donating a life-saving defibrillator to a school in Essex as part of a national drive to help people in local communities who suffer potentially fatal cardiac arrests. Stifford Clays Primary School, in Grays, in Essex, is the second school in the UK to be given the equipment as part of the drainage and maintenance specialists’ ‘Protecting…
Lanes Group has been praised for its fast action in response to drainage fault at a Scottish university that resulted in sewage building up inside a deep sump chamber. Facility managers at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen said the Lanes team’s rapid response helped make sure the drainage pump failure was resolved with minimum disruption to everyday activity. Ian…
Lanes Group has cleared 90 tonnes of silt and rubble from a large culvert to allow civil engineers to carry out a structural survey. A team of drainage engineers from the company’s depot in Eccles, Greater Manchester, worked on the seven-week project in Etruria, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. Lanes Group, the national drainage and maintenance solution specialist, was commissioned…
Lanes Group is in the running for a 2015 British Construction Industry Award after completing a sewer rehabilitation project two months early and 20 per cent under budget. The scheme to repair a Severn Trent Water drainage asset will be judged in the BCIA Civil Engineering Project of the Year (up to £10m) category. Since 2011, Lanes Group…
Lanes Group engineers based at the company’s depot in Plymouth have been supporting drainage maintenance and development schemes on the highway network across Cornwall and Devon. Teams have been out on main roads carrying out highways drainage maintenance work in Cornwall, as well as supporting a major road improvement scheme near Plymouth in Devon. The highway drainage maintenance work…
Lanes Group has completed a three week programme of drainage maintenance at the Shetland Islands’ main power station. The work at Lerwick Power Station, run by Scottish Southern Energy (SSE), included a comprehensive CCTV drainage survey of the site, drainage jetting and pipe patch lining. A team of eight drainage engineers from Lanes Group’s Aberdeen depot travelled by…
Lanes Group has been commissioned to clean and survey the drainage system for a new spine road being built to join hundred homes and the local communities together on the site of a former steelworks. The road is being built by civil engineering contractor McPhillips (Wellington) Ltd at the former Brymbo steelworks site in Wrexham, north Wales. Local…
Drainage and maintenance specialist Lanes Group has helped investigate stone culverts thought to be up to 300 years old at a National Trust stately home that is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the north east of England. The National Trust needed to make substantial changes to the drainage system at Grade I…
