preventive maintenance

I'm Kelly Rodriguez, Editor-in-Chief of Refrigerated and Frozen Foods.

Joining me to talk about the connection between refrigeration maintenance and sustainability is Mike Pastorello, President and CEO of Refrigeration Technologies.

Mike brings a technician-first perspective to refrigeration and complex mechanical systems.

His company has spent nearly four decades focused on HVACR maintenance, including approaches designed to reduce corrosion and the use of hazardous chemistry while protecting technicians, equipment, and the environment.

Today, we're going to look beyond the thermostat and talk about what refrigeration systems may or may not be telling us about energy efficiency, equipment health, and environmental impact.

Mike, welcome to From the Cold Corner.

Thank you very much for having me, Kelly.

I'm looking forward to having a conversation with you today about this.

One of the things that I really like about this report is it illustrates, I think, really vividly things that we're always talking about when we teach this stuff.

We're talking about how preventive maintenance is a really, really important part of capital improvement planning and funding.

It doesn't get nearly the attention it probably should.

We're constantly preaching how it's the old trite adage about a an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, that sort of thing.

You know, the district leaders had told us it wasn't just that set of projects that were affected.

That situation also affected their ability to float future bonds because the community didn't understand why all the projects weren't completed and they lost trust in district leadership.

If possible, can we talk about any of this in dollars and cents terms? A dollar of preventive maintenance expenditures is estimated to be saving or anecdotally saving $10, $100, whatever it might be down the road in placement costs, right?

It's such a good question.