At 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, a regional operations manager at a mid-sized UK supermarket chain opens an email from the Environment Agency. They want his refrigeration equipment's F-Gas compliance records, energy consumption data, and a carbon reduction action plan for the past twelve months. He's not alo
The Crack in the Cold ChainI was in a cold storage facility outside Harbin in January when a warehouse manager showed me something I will not forget. A pallet of vacuum-packed beef cuts, wrapped in standard PET-ALU-PE laminate, had been moved from a minus-five-degree holding room to a minus-twenty f
The Light Steel Villa That Couldn't Keep CoolA homeowner outside Melbourne posted a long write-up online after his first year in a new light steel villa. The build was fast — 200 square metres, main structure up in under a month. But the first summer nearly broke him. Attic temps hit 65°C. The air-c