Lanes laser power delivers world’s most advanced pipe profiling

Lanes Group’s drainage team in Leeds is using laser power to provide clients with the world’s most advanced pipe profiling service.

Its engineers have been trained to use the ClearLine Profiler which generates millimetre accurate data about the size, shape, capacity and condition of drainage pipelines.

Laser drainage profiling is a service Lanes Group can provide for clients across the UK. The powerful device uses a laser to continuously scan the inside of pipes.

It then generates an image of the pipe and calculates precise measurements, including pipe size, deformation, erosion, encrustation, debris and grease build-up, holes and protusions.

Laser profiling image - Lanes for Drains

The data can be used to generate reports detailing water flow rates at any point in the pipe, showing the impact of any defects on the pipe’s capacity.

The Lanes Leeds depot has trained some of its most experienced engineers to use the CleanLine Profiler to support key clients, such as housing developers and civil engineers.

Martin O’Keeffe, Area Development Manager for Lanes in West Yorkshire, said: “We have used the device to provide an enhanced drainage survey on a new housing estate.

“The housing developer wanted to provide absolutely clear evidence of the condition and quality of the new drainage system and connections with existing drainage lines as part of the sewer adoption process.

“The laser drainage profiling system worked perfectly and provided the clear and precise data needed, which was supported by the HD quality video images we also generated with a CCTV drainage survey.”

Laser profiling is carried out at the same time as a CCTV survey. The laser profiling unit is attached to the remote-controlled robotic crawler camera. It them projects laser light as the camera moves through the pipe.

The system’s software then builds a digital pipe profile by digitising the laser ring into 180 radial points between 25 and 30 times a second. The data can be viewed in real time, or recorded.

Measurements can also be taken from a single captured frame. All data can be manipulated to create a range of reports, including data tables and graphs.

Martin O’Keeffe said: “Laser drainage profiling gives our clients much more useful date for making important decisions about management of drainage assets, which might involve very significant sums of money and resources.

“It reflects Lanes Group’s determination to invest in no dig technology that allows our clients to maintain and develop their drainage systems more cost-effectively, with greater safety and to a higher quality standard.”

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