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Trenchless drain rehabilitation technology powered by ultraviolet light is keeping the traffic flowing along vital commuter routes in a busy Berkshire town while the road system is being improved. Lanes Group team based in Eastleigh in Hampshire has completed two major no dig drain reline projects in Bracknell as part of a programme of works…
Lanes engineers have helped a client solve a sticky problem after a truck carrying glucose syrup shed part of its load along a busy road. Police called to the incident advised the truck’s owners that the gooey mess had to be cleaned up before the lorry could move on – so they called Lanes Group…
Lanes Utilities drainage engineers have worked with firefighters at the scene of a huge rubbish fire to remove thousands of litres of contaminated water before it could reach the sewage system and local rivers. A two-person Lanes breathing apparatus team entered an area found to have dangerously high levels of hydrogen sulphide gas to empty…
Lanes Group engineers have used their powerful jet vac technology to remove more than 50 tonnes of sludge from two discharge pipes at a large water treatment works. The cast iron pipes, both 270 metres long, are designed to take sludge-filled water to settling lagoons at the Huntington sewage works in Chester, Cheshire. Over a…
Lanes Group has won a key role as a drainage services provider for Wrexham Borough Council. The company, the largest independent drainage specialist in the UK, has been selected as one of the preferred suppliers for the council’s framework contract for drainage repairs to council housing and corporate buildings. The contract is due to go…
Lanes engineers have put the technology they use to search out drain blockages to a new use – checking underground data and power ducts. The have been asked to carry out CCTV surveys to check that the channels carrying electricity and data cables are in good repair. Ian Clapham, Area Development Manager for the Lanes…
Lanes Group’s Rail Division has launched its own version of the company’s innovative and award-winning quality tool that uses cartoon pictures to show how worksites must look to be safe and productive. Essential Standards is being used by more than 120 Lanes drainage operatives working on London Underground (LU) maintenance and repair contracts – in…
Lanes Group engineers have cleared a blocked river culvert as part of an initiative to save tens of thousands of pounds while a weir is rebuilt. The Environment Agency has commissioned work to carry out major repairs to the weir on the River Medway, close to Royal Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. Main contractor Jackson Civil…
