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Lanes Group’s drainage engineers are carrying out CCTV surveys and remedial pipe repairs that are helping other businesses achieve internationally-recognised standards for environmental protection. The Lanes depot in Preston, Lancashire, is one of the 22 operational centres which are called in to help ensure organisations meet the rigorous ISO 14001 standard. Frank Hamlin, Area Development…
Ready to roll – the new Lanes Swaffham team, from the left: Ashley Manning, CCTV operator; Trevor Allum, Area Development Manager; Michelle Nichols, Administrator; Kristopher Doolan, Jetting and Vacuumation Engineer; Tom Grove, Regional Manager; Dean O’Leary, Blockage Engineer. Lanes Group plc has opened a new depot in East Anglia, bringing its drainage services closer to…
Lanes Group is implementing the first project to extensively line highway drainage pipes as part of a Smart Motorway project. It has been commissioned by the Carillion Kier Joint Venture, working for Highways England, to install ultraviolet (UV) liners during the M6 Junction 16-19 Smart Motorway scheme between Crewe and Knutsford, in Cheshire. The Smart…
A team of drainage engineers from Lanes Group has carried out a pre-handover drainage survey at a £100 million distribution centre being built for one of the UK’s fastest-growing home and leisure retailers. The Lanes Bristol depot was commissioned to carry out the pipe cleaning and CCTV drainage survey programme at The Range’s 1.2 million…
Drainage teams from Lanes Group have completed a major drain cleaning and refurbishment programme as part of an upgrade of an NHS mental health and training centre. A full-site CCTV drainage survey was followed by extensive drainage rehabilitation work at Clifton House, in York, North Yorkshire. The site has two secure mental health units and…
Daniela May is on the road to career success with Lane Utilities after achieving a key professional qualification for transport managers. She has been awarded her Level 3 Certificate Professional Competence for Transport Managers, and has been promoted to become Lanes Utilities’ Fleet Team Lead. Daniella is now in charge of a transport team that…
Lanes Utilities is deploying a new 12,000 PSI jet vac tanker to tackle the menace of cowboy builders who dispose of concrete by pouring it down sewers. The new JHL high-pressure unit has the power to blast concrete from the inside of a sewer, preventing the need for a costly and time-consuming excavation to replace…
Lanes Group has carried out a major programme of drainage surveying and cleaning as part of a £38 million refurbishment scheme at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Drainage engineers from the Lanes Aberdeen depot worked for more than six months on the project, focused on the cleaning of drainage downpipes in the largest building on the Foresterhill…