Energy Magazine July 2015 | Page 36

LANES GROUP

Lanes Group has been entrusted with the impressive and daunting task of supplying Thames Water ’ s waste water infrastructure with repair and maintenance services . This contract makes the company solely responsible for the waste management of roughly 14 million homes or 25 percent of the UK ’ s population . Living up to this challenge has been a great honour for Lanes and its Utilities MD , Conrad Ashby ; the work of the past 12 months stands as a testament to the efficacy of focusing on both customers and workforce simultaneously .

Operations On the Thames contract alone , Lanes has more than 400 vehicles deployed , with around 270 equipped for specialist drainage applications ; on an average day the company completes upwards of 1,000 jobs , as well as an annual average of 600 emergency daily callouts . Unbeknown to many , Thames Water ’ s area covers much of the South East , in and around the Thames Valley and Greater London which has some 140,000 kilometres of underground sewers and drains .
Lanes is a national drainage leader , with contracts from Aberdeen to Plymouth
A national drainage leader Ashby highlighted that , alongside its utilities contracts , Lanes Group provides services for Vinci Facilities , Integral FM , Mitie Property Solutions and Network Rail , in addition to several other water authorities , national supermarkets and retail chains . Lanes Group ’ s Reline Division
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