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Lanes engineers have taken drainage inspections along the M6toll around Birmingham into the fast lane with a powerful zoom camera. The Lanes depot at Minworth, in Birmingham, has invested in the UK’s most advanced drainage pole camera to carry out the inspection work for Midland Expressway, which operates and maintains the 27-mile-long motorway from Coleshill…
Lanes engineers have completed an “intensely technical” drainage excavation project ahead of schedule, despite atrocious weather and challenging ground conditions. The work involved installing a 4,000 gallon cesspool tank for national plant hire firm Mabey Hire at its depot in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. Mabey Hire had called in Lanes Group’s Leeds depot to carry out…
Lanes engineers have put their jet vacuumation technology to a very special use – emptying a ‘bath of baked beans’. They vacuumed up the beans at the Holiday Inn Warrington on Thursday (June 19) after General Manager Anthony Milligan had spent the whole day sitting in them in the hotel foyer. He raised over £500…
Lanes engineers have caught this rodent on camera, illustrating the problems posed by rat infestations in sewers. They were carrying out a CCTV survey on a sewer in the greater Manchester area when the rat popped out of a lateral connection and appeared to pose for the camera. Rat problems in sewers are often made…
Lanes engineers have discovered what is believed to be a record number of drain rods blocking a sewer. They pulled 55 of the rods from a foul water pipe leading from a restaurant in a town just outside London. No wonder the Lanes team was responding to an urgent call about a badly blocked drain!…
Lanes Group has used a no-dig patch lining technique to support the decommissioning of drainage pipes on a production site of leading global manufacturer Kimberly-Clark. The Lanes engineers based at the company’s Chester depot used local structural repairs, known as patch liners, to block lateral pipes at Kimberly-Clark’s paper mills in Flint, North Wales. The…
Lanes Group’s Utilities Division has achieved a double win in the Thames Water Health and Safety Excellence Awards 2014. The team won Innovation of the Year for developing Essential Standards, a best practice guide for all operations, including health and safety, which uses cartoons to explain to staff how jobs should be done. Sarah Hurcomb,…
Lanes Group has been shortlisted in four out of seven categories in the Thames Water Excellence in Health and Safety Awards. The annual awards for Thames Water teams and their contractors are designed to encourage and celebrate best practice in health and safety across the company’s services. Lanes Group’s Utilities Division, which operates 75% of…
