Airport car parks are busy places which host tens of thousands of visitors daily and the car park drainage systems need to be able to handle the high frequency of traffic.
Drainage systems for airport car parks have to be in excellent condition to support all of the debris, pollution, and water that goes through the airport drainage systems and reduce the risk of flooding.
Regular maintenance for airport drainage systems includes drain surveying and drain cleaning to make sure that nothing is blocking the drains and that the drains are in excellent condition.
Ensuring the drainage system of an airport car park and its connections to the wider drainage network are safe and functioning properly is made easier with our robotic and push-rod CCTV survey cameras. Our state-of-the-art cameras create faster and safer drain surveys that allow us to capture footage in great detail.
Our drainage engineers are experts at drain surveying and will make sure that your drains are in perfect condition. If the drains are damaged, we also repair any damage using the correct method that your drain pipes need. If appropriate for your drains, this can mean installing point liners (also known as patch liners) to rehabilitate the drain pipes.
If there are high water flow rates in a car park's drainage system then the drains will have to meet stringent standards. Lanes can meet high water flow standards by carrying out air tests along key drainage runs. This is done by pumping compressed air into the lines to check that they can hold the pressure and be watertight.
Our state-of-the-art high-pressure jet vacuum tankers allow us to clean drains of any size. Pushing out a forceful 96 gallons of water per minute to clear any blockage.
The water is also continually recycled which makes our drain jetting vehicles a greener option as the tank doesn’t need to be continually refilled.
An example of our work for airport car parks is the drainage work we completed for London Stanstead Airport, which helped them open their first multi-storey car park.
The new multi-storey car park needed to be built above an existing surface car park so making sure that the drainage system and its connections with the wider drain network were in excellent condition was vital.
The main contractor for the airport, BAM Construction, came to us to make sure the new multi-storey car park’s drainage system and its connections with the wider drain network were in excellent condition.
Our drainage engineers from the Lanes East London depot in Rainham provided them with a CCTV drainage survey, water jetting, drain cleaning, and pipe repair services.
The 2,700-space, six-storey car park boosts the number of short-stay car parking spaces available at the airport to more than 7,000.
Mick Fahy, Senior Site Manager for BAM Construction said: “Lanes delivered a very good service. They were always on-site on time, with excellent safety standards and a positive approach to delivering the outputs we needed, when we needed them.”
As a leading drainage specialist, we could deploy all the services BAM Construction needed for such a substantial development. This allowed the project to be delivered on time and budget.
A key objective of any retail or airport project is to avoid disruption for customers.
At Lanes, we are very experienced at working in live environments so it’s easy for us to put in place any measures that clients request from us.
Contact us today to find out how we can help you deliver your next project.