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Lanes Group drainage engineers have cleared a 160 metre sea outfall pipe by working in windows of opportunity created by rapidly changing sea levels. They teamed up with marine engineers to successfully complete the unusual project at Penarth in Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. The Lanes team finished the work in just seven days, but…
Lanes Rail Division has won a contract from London Underground to refurbish a bridge over the Piccadilly Line in West London – the second commission of its kind in less than 12 months. Work is due to begin in the next month on cleaning, repairing and repainting the pedestrian bridge in Rayners Lane, South Harrow….
Trenchless drain rehabilitation technology powered by ultraviolet light is keeping the traffic flowing along vital commuter routes in a busy Berkshire town while the road system is being improved. Lanes Group team based in Eastleigh in Hampshire has completed two major no dig drain reline projects in Bracknell as part of a programme of works…
Lanes Utilities drainage engineers have worked with firefighters at the scene of a huge rubbish fire to remove thousands of litres of contaminated water before it could reach the sewage system and local rivers. A two-person Lanes breathing apparatus team entered an area found to have dangerously high levels of hydrogen sulphide gas to empty…
Lanes engineers have put the technology they use to search out drain blockages to a new use – checking underground data and power ducts. The have been asked to carry out CCTV surveys to check that the channels carrying electricity and data cables are in good repair. Ian Clapham, Area Development Manager for the Lanes…
Lanes Group engineers have cleared a blocked river culvert as part of an initiative to save tens of thousands of pounds while a weir is rebuilt. The Environment Agency has commissioned work to carry out major repairs to the weir on the River Medway, close to Royal Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. Main contractor Jackson Civil…
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 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…
