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Drinking Water Facilities Managers up and down the country are under increased pressure to reduce carbon footprint, improve the environmental credentials of a building and ensure employee wellbeing. BRITA Vivreau has a system that answers all three.


ViTap dispenses mains-fed, purified, chilled, still, sparkling and instant boiling hot water from one single tap with a touch sensor control and zero splash. By investing in ViTaps, and therefore purifying water on site, the FM will no longer have to bring in pre-bottled water, therefore reducing transport miles, but will also save time not having to order it, find space to store it all and recycle the bottles.


Incorporating high performance ice bank refrigeration, the ViTap is capable of delivering high volumes of water at peak demand times. There is even an intelligent safety


feature on the ViTap, which prevents boiling water from being dispensed by accident.


John Haskell, Contracts Manager at Springer Nature commented: “I would say that the ViTap system is one of the most used items of equipment that we have on the premises. With the proximity of the ViTap, staff are constantly topping up their bottles and taking them back to their desks, so they rehydrate on a regular basis.”


The ViTap is also hygienic, promoting a healthier workplace. Hygiene has been at the heart of each stage of the design process, from the dirt- free touch pad, purposefully shallow drip tray and the ability to fill water bottles without nozzle contact (no more bottle germs), to the removable dispense nozzle for cleaning. The systems also offer complete peace of mind to FMs, with full service and maintenance available together with options to rent or buy.


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carried out remote CCTV surveys of drain and sewer pipes that add up to at least that length.


They have also completed dozens of remedial projects on the highway drainage system at both ends of the bridge, including pipe desilting and unblocking, root cutting, patch lining, and full pipe lining.


10Km Underground Journey


to New Mersey Bridge To go over one of the UK's most famous rivers - you must also go underground.


Lanes Group has travelled more than 10km through the drains and sewers of North Cheshire as it has supported the building of Mersey Gateway, the second crossing of the River Mersey.


As the construction project's specialist drainage contractor, over a period of 18 months, its teams have


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The new £1.86bn landmark cable- stayed bridge and regeneration project will link Runcorn on the south bank with Widnes, and is due to open in October 2017.


The construction programme is being led by Merseylink Civil Contractors Joint Venture, which consists of FCC, Kier, and Samsung.


Lanes Group was selected in November 2015 to provide drainage survey and maintenance services throughout the project, with work co-ordinated by the company's Chester depot.


Derek Campbell, Areas Development Manager for Lanes based in Chester, said: "We have


been on hand 24 hours a day to deliver both planned and reactive drainage services for the project.


"Where it crosses the Mersey, the bridge is 1,000m long. We've completed enough CCTV drain surveys to cross and re-cross that span at least 10 times already.


"We work very closely with Merseylink Civil Contractors JV's teams, always making sure we do all we can to keep the challenging construction schedule on track."


In one of dozens of cases, Lanes drainage engineers completed a night- time emergency CCTV survey and root cutting project on a drain line crossing a road, so it could be asphalted, on schedule, the next morning.


Mike Ronan, Section Engineer for S4 Roadworks, said: "The support from Lanes was vital. It wasn't an easy fix, but with an excellent attitude and some clever thinking, they got the job done."


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