McGee automate the waste ticketing process at Heathrow T2B

McGee Group is subcontractor to Balfour Beatty at the new Heathrow Terminal 2 development. The project is classified as ‘airside’ requiring the management of additional security and complex logistics with working at an airport.

To combat the mountain of paper tickets associated with large scale earthworks projects, McGee have deployed the specialist PODFather Earthworks system to replace traditional paper Conveyance Notes. The initial deployment has been to capture the vehicle and material movements of the civil engineering element of the new Terminal 2 Building at Heathrow Airport.

PODFather Earthworks provides a real-time ticketing system by utilising rugged mobile handhelds and printers. Data accuracy is improved and entry time reduced by using barcode technology to track vehicles, site, and material types within the system.

In comparison to the paper based processes replaced with the PODFather system, the benefits are huge. Time savings are in the region of 60% less time taken to produce a waste ticket, and a reduction of 25% of site manpower with similar savings in the office for data entry. This combined with a huge improvement in ticket accuracy means the real-time reports generated out of the system within minutes of the work being completed on site would have otherwise taken days to produce.