Before and After: LEDs
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.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby Colleen O'Shea | Jan 31, 2020 | Arena Equipment, Energy Efficiency | 1 |
By Colleen O’Shea, President, Greener Arena Solutions Inc. Lotte Schlegel, the Executive...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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...
Read Moreby 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.
Read Moreby 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)…
Read Moreby 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!
Read Moreby Colleen O'Shea | Feb 20, 2019 | Arena Equipment | 0 |
So…how do they make the ice tracks for ice cross downhill? As it happened, I was in Boston...
Read Moreby Colleen O'Shea | Jan 18, 2019 | Arena Equipment, Energy Efficiency | 1 |
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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