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A construction company had Lanes for Drains ‘no dig’ technology and expertise on the shopping list when it needed to urgently solve a drainage problem just before the opening of a new supermarket. Lincolnshire-based civil engineering firm Britcon called in Lanes for Drains, the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, to carry out a pre-handover survey…
Lanes Group engineers have used their no dig technology to save a local authority money and allow primary school children to carry on playing. They were able to mend an underground pipe without having to dig up an artificial grass play area, winning generous praise for the efficiency and quality of their work in the…
Lanes for Drains engineers have carried out a full survey of the drainage system at the former Swan Hunter shipyard on Tyneside. Two kilometres of drainage line have been inspected and mapped in one of the biggest clean and survey projects carried out by Lanes for Drains’ Tyne & Wear depot in recent years. The…
The Lanes Group is the first sewer rehabilitation specialist to be awarded WRc Approved™ certification for the installation of a WRc Approved™ patch drain repair system. It is also only the second company to gain WRc Approved™ certification for the installation of a full-length liner, with its UV cure, CIPP, manhole-to-manhole system. The commendations followed…
Hot on the heels of British Standards accreditations for quality, environment and business continuity, Lanes for Drains’ super depot at Slough, has done it again. The team at the Berkshire hub, which handles one of the largest wastewater network service operations in the UK, has achieved BSI OHSAS 18001:2007, after demonstrating its adherence to occupational…
Lanes Group has used its innovative drainage technology to carry out the first ever reline repair of a refuse chute in a residential tower block in England. Its engineers reached for the skies instead of going underground to refurbish two chutes at the 13-storey Devonshire Tower in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. The technique, pioneered by…
Lanes for Drains engineers in Derby have used poly-pigs to root out a blocked gas main that builders feared could delay the completion of a new school. They were not the porky kind of pigs that go oink oink, but the plastic ones, because a poly-pig is a device that is used to clean out…
Lanes pulled off a tricky drain reinforcement to keep Manchester’s multi-million pound tram network extension scheme on track. The no-dig specialist lined 54-metres of sewer with only a single point of access, instead of the usual two manholes, using a technique known as a ‘blind shot’. Wherever new tramlines are laid, the utility pipes running…
