React Cooling

Zane

for React Cooling and supports other teams within the Adroit Group. Processing all AC service and maintenance requests from clients with precision, she is able to connect to the management and engineers within React Cooling to ensure the best solutions and engineer are allocated to a request. Jodie’s multitasking skills are superior, from smoothly getting engineers out to service clients, to managing all incoming requests for repairs or new clients, Jodie keeps React Cooling running like a well oiled machine.

Beyond day-to-day service requests, Jodie also plays a key role in coordinating facilities management and repair works for clients, acting as the central link between engineers, management teams, and site contacts. She keeps jobs moving smoothly from first report to completion—booking access, confirming scopes, and making sure the right information is in place so engineers can deliver efficiently. With a strong focus on compliance and documentation, Jodie helps ensure work is completed to the correct standards and that clients stay informed at every stage. With her endless kindness and patience she is the perfect person to manage client emergencies and find fast solutions to any issues.

In her free time you’ll find her out on the golf course, with four generations of her family playing golf she’s a pro!

Service Delivery

Problem Solving

Tracking down Engineers

Project Administration

Expenses Management

Jodie Jones Service Co-ordinator

Jodie Jones is the Services Co-ordinator for React Cooling and supports other teams within the Adroit Group. Processing all AC service and maintenance requests from clients with precision, she is able to connect to the management and engineers within React Cooling to ensure the best solutions and engineer are allocated to a request. Jodie’s multitasking skills are superior, from smoothly getting engineers out to service clients, to managing all incoming requests for repairs or new clients, Jodie keeps React Cooling running like a well oiled machine.

In her free time you’ll find her out on the golf course, with four generations of her family playing golf she’s a pro!

Service Delivery

Problem Solving

Tracking down Engineers

Project Administration

Expenses Management

Becky Kerridge Project Manager

Becky Kerridge is the FM Project manager for Adroit Group, Calztec Fit Out and Adroit Estates. Ensuring contracts for each project and service are clear and documented before work begins and delivered to the letter so everyone wins. Becky is often onsite to project manage FM service projects and can support both clients and engineers to make projects are delivered on track and to the highest specs.

When she’s not project managing or going through paperwork with a fine tooth comb she’s able to join the team onsite with her project management hat on, reviewing work and even getting involved with builds when they need an extra pair of hands. With her experience in refurbishments in residential and commercial properties and her academic and work background in law she has the perfect set of skills to manage contracts for Adroit and it’s companies. Streamlining software and data management to make sure everything is recorded and nothing slips through the net; she often works closely with delivery teams to ensure data capture processes are followed and reporting to clients is accurate.

Another dog lover in the team but even better she’s the team dog sitter and can manage even the most stubborn of pups with ease. She’s into health and fitness and is always on the move.

Project Management

Compliance Knowledge (excellent)

Security Solutions

Maintenance

Property Refurbishments

Darrel Hawkins Operations Director

Darrel Hawkins serves as Operations Director for React Cooling and brings over 30 years of experience in commercial property management, HVAC systems engineering and building services. As a time-served engineer, Darrel has developed extensive expertise across the full engineering and operational life cycle, from technical design and project delivery through to the management of large-scale engineering operations at a national level.

Fully F-Gas qualified, Darrel combines practical, hands-on knowledge with strategic operational leadership. Having worked on HVAC systems since his early career, he possesses a deep technical understanding of system design, equipment selection, installation planning, and long-term operational performance. His breadth of experience enables him to advise clients on the most effective and commercially appropriate solutions for a wide range of building environments.

Throughout his career, Darrel has progressed from engineering roles into senior facilities and operations management, giving him a well-rounded perspective on both technical delivery and business-critical service performance. In his current role, he is responsible for overseeing operations across React Cooling, while also leading the planning, coordination, and delivery of installation and servicing projects across diverse commercial sectors, including hotels, hospitals, schools, offices, and clinical facilities.

Darrel’s expertise extends across all stages of project development, including system design, load calculations, equipment specification, budgeting, cost planning, installation strategy, team mobilisation, and end-to-end project management. His experience in delivering large-scale projects and managing nationwide engineering operations ensures that every solution is developed with a clear focus on performance, compliance, efficiency, and client requirements.

A key area of Darrel’s specialism is HVAC design — the engineering discipline concerned with creating air conditioning, heating and ventilation, and systems that provide thermal comfort, maintain indoor air quality, and optimise energy efficiency. This process involves detailed assessment of heating and cooling loads, equipment sizing and selection, ventilation and filtration strategies, control system integration, regulatory compliance, and overall project cost planning. Darrel’s extensive knowledge in this field enables React Cooling to deliver robust, practical, and high-performing solutions tailored to each client’s operational needs.

In addition to designing AC and building services solutions for new clients through React Energy, Darrel also supports and oversees a nationwide service team of more than 20 F-Gas qualified engineers. His leadership ensures that React Cooling continues to deliver consistently high standards of engineering support, project execution, and ongoing service excellence across the UK.

Darrel focuses his time in designing AC solutions and installations for new clients for React Energy while supporting the services team of over 20 F-gas qualified engineers nationwide. If you require an AC installation reach out to the team to book in a site survey with Darrel.

Project Management

HVAC Knowledge (Superior)

HVAC Design

AC Installations

HVAC Estimating