June 7, 2021 – The East Coast Hockey League, a “AA” professional hockey league based in Princeton, NJ, today announced its 2020-21 Best Ice Award has been given to the Rapid City Rush, playing out of The Monument in Rapid City, South Dakota. Nathan Kleinschmit, Ice Specialist for The Monument, received the...
VANCOUVER, May 4, 2021 — REALice Canada is proud to recognize four individuals for leadership to their operations team and stakeholders. All of them use REALice to make great ice AND have found innovative ways to reduce their arena’s energy spend. The REALice 2021 Energy Champion...
Site visits are rare these days! That's why we are even more excited to be able to take you along to visit Doug Conquergood at the Servus Community Arena (SCA) in Bow Island, AB. Doug has been in charge of the ice there for the past 33...
Pushing the brine temperature up week by week at Bow Island, AB For the past three weeks, arena manager Doug Conquergood has been pushing his brine temperature higher. His brine temperature was started at 21°F. It's now up to 24°F. We're excited about what Doug is achieving at the Servus...
Town of Falher were successful applicants of the Recreation Energy Conservation Funding Program through Municipal Climate Change Action Centre (MCCAC). The grant funding (totalling $25,227) allowed the Falher Regional Recreation Complex to install a deaerator designed by REALIce on the facility’s ice making system to help...
This is the most comprehensive article written about our floodwater technology to date, published by St. Albert Today. The City of St. Albert recently installed REALice and journalist Kevin Ma spoke to a number of people about the installation, the energy savings, the reduced CO2...
Village of Donnelly were successful applicants of the Recreation Energy Conservation Funding Program through Municipal Climate Change Action Centre (MCCAC). The grant funding (totalling $25,227) allowed the Guy-Donnelly Sportex to install a deaerator designed by REALIce on the facility’s ice making system to help reduce greenhouse...
How much brighter will your indoor ice arena be with LEDs? That’s hard to visualize. But at the Mayfield Recreation Complex in Caledon, ON they tracked their changes when they did their LED retrofit which took them from 66-T5 fluorescents to LEDs. As you can see in the video,...
Happy New Year! While we usually keep our success stories to Canadian ice arenas, we thought we will start off 2021 with a report from Switzerland. After all, the ice for the famous Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland has been built with REALice for years now and Swiss people are...
December 15, 2020 - The Town of Allan is the first community in Saskatchewan to use REALice at its arena, the Logan Schatz Memorial Arena. The installation, using pressure instead of temperature to treat the floodwater, is unique for a couple of reasons. First, Allan's REALice system is a rental....