Arena & Curling Rinks

Municipalities are challenged by steadily rising infrastructure and operating costs for all buildings but especially for their recreational facilities.  Yet availability of high quality facitilies and services is in high demand.  What's more, many municipally-owned arenas and community centres are 25 years old or more and facing extremely expensive retrofits and upgrades just to maintain operational capability.

Ice-making systems from Innovative Cooling Technolgoies of Canada for hockey, curling and recreational skating rinks offer an attractive, energy efficient, environmentally friendly alternative to conventional rink refrigeration systems.  Integrating geothermal, heat recovery, thermal ice storage and IKS heat pumps, arena refrigeration solutions from ICT provides the following benefits:

	58% less energy use
	80% lower carbon emissions
	less than 1/2 the typical energy demand
	abolutely no dangerous ammonia like many exisitng systems
	up to 15 LEED points
	lower operating costs
	typically over 70% lower maintenance costs

Heat recovery plays a significant role in today's energy efficient arena and rink designs.  The refrigeration process for making ice creates enormous amounts of thermal energy (heat) which ICT's innovative heat recovery systems, using IKS heat pumps, can reclaim and reuse for applications within the facility such as:

	heating snow melt pits
	heated seating for audience comfort
	comfort heating within the building (i.e. change rooms, common areas, conference rooms. etc.)
	domestic hot water

With ICT's heat pump based solutions a single system can simultaneously provide heating and ice making while virtually eliminating associated green house gas emissions.