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An astonishing 3,000 people, including hundreds of children, are getting enhanced protection from sudden cardiac arrest after Lanes Group donated a heart defibrillator to a Berkshire school. The drainage and asset maintenance specialist has donated the life-saving device to St Mary’s CE Primary School in Slough, Berkshire, which is located next to a Sure Start…
Lanes Group can offer clients a full CCTV drainage survey service with enhanced standards of safe working in potentially hazardous environments after investing in EX-rated camera technology. The drainage survey camera systems are designed to be ‘intrinsically safe’ when operated in confined spaces where there is a risk that they could come into contact with…
400 tonnes of silt and debris, including large tree branches, removed from just one culvert in Derby Culvert clean is designed to reduce the risk of highway flooding this winter Major culvert clearance is part of Highway England’s new asset-led approach to maintenance and delivery Lanes used powerful Superflex wet-dry vacuumation capability to remove 25…
The UK’s leading independent drainage specialist has welcomed a positive step from wet wipe makers on tightening labelling of their products. But Lanes Group plc points out that water industry experts want more to be done to protect the environment and prevent sewer blockages. Michelle Ringland, Lanes Group’s Head of Marketing, said: “The decision by…
As a senior scheduler for Lanes Group’s Utilities Division, Kellie had a rewarding role and was just about to move with colleagues into a swish new ultra-modern operational HQ. Yet, she wanted a new challenge. So she applied to become a field manager, training and supporting drainage engineers, delivering Lanes’ front line service as…
Young footballers are looking the part as they start their new season thanks to sponsorship from East Midlands drainage specialist Lanes Group plc. The Pegasus Falcons, the under-13s team at Pegasus Youth Football Club in Nottingham, has 20 players, all keen to do well over the coming months. The team is coached by Lee Johnson,…
A sewer rehabilitation team from Lanes Group has met challenging working timeframes to complete a project that has reduced sewer flooding risks in a Scottish city. The company was commissioned, by Scottish Water, to clean and line a combined sewer downstream of the Fisherman’s Car Park close to Inverness town centre, and right alongside the…
Drainage engineers found a novel solution when a client needed to establish the condition of a centuries-old culvert – they went surfing. The team from the Lanes depot in Plymouth mounted a CCTV drainage survey camera on a surfboard and floated it through the culvert under an Elizabethan building. Usually, they would have used one…
