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Lanes Group drainage engineers have cleaned a seal enclosure at an aquarium while being watched by those who have had a vested interest in the quality of their work – the seals themselves. The seals remained in their Seal Cove home at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, while the team based…
Lanes Group has been praised for its cost and time-saving contributions to the construction of a major new road designed to cure one of the UK’s worst congestion hotspots. The UK drainage and maintenance services leader delivered specialist drainage services throughout the construction of the new A453 dual-carriageway in Nottinghamshire. In a 2.5 year project,…
Lanes Group has carried out its first aerial drone survey at a London Underground station. The company’s rail division carried out the roof survey using the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at Amersham Station on the Metropolitan Line. Lanes Group had previously successfully carried out a drone roof survey on a large maintenance depot, and wanted…
Lanes Group drainage engineers based in Sheffield have been praised for their urgent response in solving drainage problems at a house just days before it was due to be sold. Former construction company director Mick Rabbitt said the sale of his four-bed detached house may have been delayed had Lanes Group engineers not made the…
A Lanes Group utilities team working for Thames Water has recovered a film maker’s wedding ring after he accidently flung it down a drain while directing a corporate video. Pascal Gunter had been waving his arm to show one of the video participants what he wanted her to do, when the platinum ring shot from…
Drainage engineers at the Lanes Group depot in Cardiff, South Wales, have dug deep to carry out one of the most challenging sewer adoption cleaning and survey projects for a new housing development in recent years. Their work demonstrates the higher levels of productivity Lanes Group can deliver, resulting in overall cost reductions and greater…
Lanes Group has become the first wastewater network contractor in the UK to commercially deploy pipe inspection technology that uses sound to assess the condition of sewers. The company’s utilities division has worked in partnership with Thames Water to implement the SewerBatt acoustic inspection device, which uses the same echo-location principles that allow bats…
Sewer pipes. Not top of your list for things to think about we’re guessing. Nevertheless, it may be worth your while in the long run to consider their age and condition. Because sewers don’t last for ever. In fact, anything over 30 years old, and they could already be in a state of disrepair. That’s…
