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Lanes wins major new Thames Water contracts

02/02/2018

Andy Brierley (left) and Peter Stobbs (right) beaming with joy after just signing a new contract expanding the range of services that Lanes group plc provide for thames water. Lanes Group plc has won major new contracts to provide specialist cleaning services for Thames Water. The work includes sewage treatment plant cleaning, sewage pumping station…

New Contract deal with Thames Water

Wastewater network ‘fit to fly’ at former RAF base

19/12/2017

Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have helped a water company survey and upgrade the wastewater network across a former RAF base that has been transformed into a ‘garden village’. A team from the drainage specialist’s St Neots depot was commissioned by Icosa Water to carry out an extensive programme of investigation, repair, and rehabilitation…

Lanes Surveying former RAF Site

Lanes wins Heart Safe Award for helping to protect lives

24/11/2017

Lanes Group plc has won a Heart Safe Award in recognition of its commitment to fund the provision of defibrillators in its workplaces and schools. The UK’s largest independent drainage specialist has won the Construction Company category in the national awards, organised for the 6th year by the Salford-based charity Hand on Heart. Under its…

Lanes engineers use their heads to stay safe

11/10/2012

Lanes for Drains engineers are using their heads when it comes to best practice for health and safety – because vital information that could help save their lives is now kept on their hats. Lanes, the UK’s largest independent specialist drainage company, has invested in an emergency ID system that works by storing personal health…

How to get rid of unwanted fat: Part II

01/10/2012

No. This is not another fad diet or latest craze in fitness regimes. It is about good housekeeping for drains and sewers.  And with bad practice costing millions of pounds a year, it is an issue which is currently being addressed by many of the UK’s water and sewerage companies; the industry’s trade association, British…

How to get rid of unwanted fat

11/10/2011

This is not another fad diet or latest craze in fitness regimes. It is straightforward advice about good housekeeping from the UK’s largest independent drainage specialist, Lanes for Drains. And Lanes should know: the company is called out to around 20,000 drainage blockages across the UK every year; 23% of which could be avoided if…