Arena Equipment Archives

Before and After: LEDs

by Colleen O'Shea | Jan 26, 2021 | Arena Equipment | 0 |

How much brighter will your indoor ice arena be if you replace your T5s with LEDs? The Mayfield Recreation Complex tracked their changes and the results are amazing.

When Snow Melt Pits Stop Melting

by Colleen O'Shea | Dec 2, 2020 | Arena Equipment | 0 |

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.

Being Green Pays Off for Leduc Recreation Centre

by Colleen O'Shea | Jul 24, 2020 | Arena Equipment, Energy Efficiency | 0 |

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.

A School, an Arena and a Converted Zamboni with a Logging Truck Wrap

by Colleen O'Shea | Jun 28, 2020 | Arena Equipment, Energy Efficiency | 0 |

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.

Lunching — and learning about energy- and resource-efficiencies for indoor ice arenas and municipalities

by Colleen O'Shea | Jan 31, 2020 | Arena Equipment, Energy Efficiency | 1 |

By Colleen O’Shea, President, Greener Arena Solutions Inc. Lotte Schlegel, the Executive...

#2020Vision on Ice Arenas

by Colleen O'Shea | Jan 16, 2020 | Arena Equipment, Energy Efficiency | 0 |

A new year means new initiatives, and that includes me! On January 29th, I’ll be hosting the...

Flushing Ice Paint out of Your Arena Forever

by Colleen O'Shea | Nov 27, 2019 | Arena Equipment, Energy Efficiency | 1 |

“It was an environmental mess.” One of the many things the new Public Works Manager...

In the Mechanical Room: A Picture Tells A Thousand Words…

by Colleen O'Shea | Oct 28, 2019 | Arena Equipment, Management | 0 |

This Calgary arena manager uses framed pictures in his mechanical room so his operators have an easy reference to what’s what.

The 18 LEDs Above the Rink

by Colleen O'Shea | Jun 21, 2019 | Arena Equipment, Energy Efficiency | 0 |

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)…

Where in the World? Ice Rinks Using CO2 as a Refrigerant

by Colleen O'Shea | Mar 12, 2019 | Arena Equipment | 1 |

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!