Since 2014, the 3,000-seat Agrodome at the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, BC has been using the REALice water conditioning system to build and maintain its ice. Spring and summer bring a variety of special events to the venue, but when winter comes, the dry...
Dagan Doraty and Chrissy Jochmes are impressed with the clean floods they are achieving with the help of the REALice system. "It's just nicer to flood with", says Chrissy, who has been making ice in Carstairs for four years. The Carstairs Memorial Arena, offering seating for about 1,500...
Clarey Martin is the General Manager of the Upper Skeena Recreation Centre in Hazelton, BC. This arena is just two years old. It has no dehumidifier and no hot water tanks -- but it has REALice. Clarey is a long-standing ice maker with over 20 years of experience He...
Greg Mitchell, Arena Coordinator in Kitimat, BC speaks about their two arenas using the REALice floodwater treatment system. With REALice, the days are gone where the operators would let the hot water in the ice resurfacing machine would sit for too long and the ice quality...
The Mayor's Megawatt Challenge shares their roadmap to get ice rinks to net-zero! To prepare this roadmap to reach net zero in ice rinks, this pilot study looked at 9 ice arenas in Ontario and assessed the many ways of how emissions can be reduced before...
Why Scott Fusco said no to hot water flooding and yes to REALice twice...
Please join us for this operator-to-operator interview with Bryan Hawn, Arena Supervisor at Kal Tire Place in Vernon, BC. This is a big arena and home of the Vernon Vipers of the BCHL - capacity 3,003 and 500 standing. A New Process to Reduce Costs - also in...
November 15, 2021 – Vancouver BC. The City of Vernon’s Kal Tire Place has said goodbye to its reliance on hot water to maintain its twin ice surfaces. Instead, it has installed a mechanical rink de-aerator to reduce energy costs, lower CO2 emissions -- and its...
HIGH RIVER, AB: Foothills County has implemented REALice device installation at Scott Seaman Sports Rink (SSSR) to increase energy efficiency for arena operations. “The installation of REALice at SSSR has eliminated the need for using hot water for ice rink flooding,” said Adeniyi Adeaga, Municipal Energy Manager...
The way Fred Kilner tells it, running after their ice was getting in the way of being icemakers. Two years into his retirement, we caught up with him as he was heading into the rink to meet up with some of the operations team for...