Alex Audy at Complexe 2 Glaces Honco in St-Romuald, Quebec wasn’t happy with his snow melt pit: it wasn’t melting the snow, which meant the operators needed to use hot water to melt the snow by hand. Here’s what he did.
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Having a green facility can enhance its attraction for sporting events and tournament organizers. Here’s how the City of Leduc, Alberta, makes energy efficiency and recreation tourism work hand in hand.
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Scratch below the logging truck wrap and you’ll find a clever orchestra of innovations, grant applications, marketing concepts and community spirit that came together to save money, lower greenhouse gas emissions — and stop wasting waste heat at the arena in Port McNeill, BC.
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By Colleen O’Shea, President, Greener Arena Solutions Inc. Lotte Schlegel, the Executive...
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A new year means new initiatives, and that includes me! On January 29th, I’ll be hosting the...
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“It was an environmental mess.” One of the many things the new Public Works Manager...
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This Calgary arena manager uses framed pictures in his mechanical room so his operators have an easy reference to what’s what.
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You don’t need as many LEDs to light up your indoor ice arena as you used to because the technology has advanced — and you may not need as many as you think you do. This rink in Black Diamond, Alberta has only 18 (but you might expect that from one of the most energy-efficient continuously retrofitted indoor rinks in Canada)…
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There’s been a proliferation of CO2 ice rinks lately — so much so that I helped collaborate with Nova Scotian Paul Taylor to track them all. Any missing? Any data you’d like to see, but don’t, please let us know!
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So…how do they make the ice tracks for ice cross downhill? As it happened, I was in Boston...
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The 8-sheet Chilliwack Curling Club is the first aqua ammonia installation in North America. Here’s how it works — and why it’s so efficient.
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Are you thinking about converting that empty retail space into an indoor ice rink? Randy Uens of Rhino Sports did just that, converting an old Zellers Department Store in Belleville, ON into an entertainment centre complete with a 3-on-3 rink…
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