VANCOUVER, May 4, 2021 — REALice Canada is proud to recognize four individuals for leadership to their arena operations team and stakeholders. All of them use REALice to make great ice AND have found innovative ways to reduce cost at their ice rink. The REALice 2021...
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 arena ice maintenance there for the...
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...
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....
The City of Guelph in Southern Ontario is pleased to announce it has now converted all of their indoor recreational ice arenas to the REALice floodwater treatment system to resurface their ice rinks. This change is expected to save the City over a quarter of a million-kilowatt hours of electricity, over 36,000 m3 of...
See what others are saying about the REALice difference: ice quality, run time, and savings - in just 90-seconds. Great ice and savings! REALice is technology for a sustainable future REALice is 3-D printed, maintenance-free, and uses pressure to treat the water. It acts like hot water...
Watch the replay of the roundtable discussion from the Mayors' Megawatt Challenge Webinar on REALice. 6 Operators, among them Tyler Seitz, Sr. Manager Ice & Building Operations, WinSport, Calgary and Michael Pisocki, Operations Manager Barclays Center/Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, NYC and Michael Knight Supervisor Arenas Sardis Sports Complex City of Chilliwack, answer some specific questions and share their experience...