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Lanes Group has carried out its largest ever Network Rail station upgrade project, attracting praise from main contractor Balfour Beatty Rail for the professional and safe way it completed the work. Lanes teams worked in partnership with Balfour Beatty Rail colleagues to realign a platform and replace subways at Maidenhead Station over Christmas 2015…
We all like to think we only use as much water as we need to, but when we leave home for the first time it’s all too easy to forget about how much we waste. Lanes asked 18 to 24 year old university and college students about their water usage habits, by quizzing them on…
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 worked in partnership with AMCO Rail to carry out structural repairs to a large underbridge on a main railway line. The joint team inserted steel stitches to stabilise a crack in the brick-built underbridge London to South Wales line between Newport and Cardiff. It was the first time that…
Lanes Group is delivering a comprehensive package of specialist drainage services to support a £27 million programme that is revitalising an entire community. River Clyde Homes is managing the project to refurbish and transform the 667 properties in Broomhill, a neighbourhood in Greenock, Scotland. It has commissioned Lanes Group to deliver all drainage cleaning, repair…
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…
It was not so much ‘I do’ as ‘We can’. Lanes Group drainage engineers, working for Thames Water, have been praised for preventing a happy couple’s wedding turning from the best day to the worst day of their lives. They were called to the Bexley Heath Conservative Club to clear a sewer blockage just minutes…
