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Lanes Group gained Highly Commended at the recent Construction News Awards for their e-PoWRA initiative in Health & Safety. The national drainage, utilities and maintenance provider impressed the judges with its new industry-leading digital point of works risk assessment tool, which is designed to support a real step change in health and safety culture. Judges commended Lanes Group…
A Lancashire school being supported by Lanes Group in a War of the Roses rugby league challenge is making its final preparation before the big match. The team from Haslingden High School in Haslingden, near Blackburn, will be running out in the special match against a school in Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire on Friday 3 July. Lanes Group is…
Hus Ibrahim of the Lanes Group’s London depot has been invited to a service to mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the capital which killed 52 people and injured hundreds more. Lanes is a facilities management contractor for London Underground (LU) and provides manpower, equipment and services for unusual situations on the tube network. Underground bosses…
Drainage survey camera technology provided by Lanes Group has been used to carry out a structural inspection of one of the deepest railway tunnel shafts in the UK. A CCTV drainage survey team supported the inspection of the 120 metre ventilation shaft for the Ffestiniog tunnel on the Conwy Valley Line in Snowdonia, North Wales. The tunnel is Britain’s longest…
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…
One of Britain’s most famous TV actors turned out to watch the Middlesex disability cricket team – but the players were the real stars. Jim Carter – who plays butler Carson in ITV’s Downton Abbey – was among spectators watching Middlesex play Kent at Hampstead Cricket Club in north London. The players dazzled, though, as they scored 349…
Lanes Group has carried out a CCTV survey of two kilometres of track drainage on the Brighton Main Line in support of work to improve drainage in a nearby tunnel. A team of 16 drainage engineers carried out the work in 10 hours on a stretch of line north of Haywards Heath Station. Bam Nuttall, working on behalf of…
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…
