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Water utilities and drainage specialist Lanes Group plc has won a Procurement Skills Accord for the fifth year in a row. The training and skills development accolade has been presented by the Energy & Utilities Skills Partnership. The company was one of 37 utility service suppliers to achieved Skills Accord status in 2023, out of…
The Premier League may be the pinnacle of football in the UK. But thousands of junior clubs across the UK are the vital grassroots and, arguably, lifeblood of the sport. Lanes Group plc is sponsoring an under 12s team at Parkwyddn Junior Football Club, in Salford, Greater Manchester. We’re taking the opportunity to hear from…
Lanes Group drainage engineers have travelled back through centuries of British maritime history by looking into a sewer for a major dock development scheme. The team from Lanes Plymouth depot could plot layers of historical activity in the area by looking down a manhole into the remains of a hand-cut limestone culvert at the city’s…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc work in some of the most unusual and challenging environments imaginable, from giant public sewers and nuclear power stations to rail tunnels under the sea. Perhaps the most challenging of them all can be working in prisons. Lanes drainage teams have worked on drains and sewers in dozens of…
Drainage engineers at Lanes Group plc are among the first operatives to undergo new training designed to develop essential knowledge and skills for when using water jetting for surface cleaning. The Drain, Sewer and Surface Preparation up to 275 Bar practical module, or DSP for short, developed by the Water Jetting Association (WJA), includes new…
Drainage engineers at Lanes Group plc are helping cable installers clear stubborn blockages in ducts – so they can meet tight deadlines to deliver ultrafast broadband to thousands of homes. The duct jetting services are saving the installation teams from having to pay out huge sums to excavate blockages or reroute ducts – and also…
Lanes Group plc has launched a new national highways drainage surveying service backed by a dedicated data processing centre and advanced asset laser scanning technology. It means the company can provide clients with a safer, faster and more comprehensive highways drainage surveying service, integrated with its unrivalled cleaning, repair and rehabilitation services. One of the…
National drainage and wastewater specialist Lanes Group plc – founder of Unblocktober, the world’s first campaign to improve our drains, sewers and seas – welcomes proposals to ban plastic-based wipes to tackle water pollution. The measure is part of a wider Government plan to improve water quality in rivers and other waterways in England. A…