Enhancing Road Safety with a Bespoke Vehicle Inspection Mobile App

Published 23 May 2024 | No comments
Written by Emma Attwood
CategoriesInspection and assurance Risk assessments
With the invention and introduction of a bespoke Mobile Vehicle Inspection app, McGee has enhanced daily vehicle inspections above and beyond Health & Safety regulations and Company Policy requirements by revolutionising historic paper-based systems. McGee can therefore be confident that their highly trained drivers are inspecting their vehicles to the highest of standards, instilling confidence that every vehicle leaves their...

Employees Wear it Pink for Breast Cancer Now

Published 11 January 2024 | No comments
Written by Emma Attwood
CategoriesSupport for local charities
On this project, employees joined hundreds of thousands of people across the country and helped to make wear it pink even bigger and brighter than the last. As part of McGee’s continued support for the annual campaign, a grand total of £5,330 was raised for Breast Cancer Now. Involving more than 800 staff, subcontractors and main contractors, a cascade of...

Steel Reuse Programme

Published 12 September 2023 | No comments
Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesConserve of resources Green/renewable energy Modern methods of construction
The team’s carbon engineering expertise developed an approach allowing the structural steel within the building to be recertified, refabricated and reused at the same site in the new proposed structure. The proposed refabrication involves ribbon cutting the existing beams to increase the stiffness of the section, something which has never previously been done on a reused steel section. They unlocked...

Workforce Carbon Toolbox Talks

Published 14 August 2023 | No comments
Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesEducation Induction and training Workforce training
Carbon can be used in a number of different ways on construction sites and while there is a vast amount of resources coming available for management level to look at strategy of reducing carbon on construction projects there is less available to bring the conversation to the general workforce. With a lack of toolbox talks aimed at the workforce which include...

Rubber Modified Asphalt

Published 21 October 2022 | No comments
Written by Jack Endean
CategoriesCarbon reduction Conserve of resources Lower embodied carbon content materials
This contractor coordinated with their road surfacing contractor, and construction material producer, to lay a 1755m2 area with a rubber modified asphalt. The product is an environmentally sustainable alternative to conventional asphalt. The mix uses end of life tyres which are converted into new roads and pavements, resulting in up to 5% lower CO2 emissions during production. The product is...

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