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Walk into any rink with a veteran installer—the kind who's pulled more z-clips than a bank teller counts bills—and you'll hear the same thing: "I...
You're the building engineer for a mid-sized arena. Last winter, the ice started getting foggy in the second period of every junior game. The dehumidi...
You walk into a newly retrofitted rink. The lights snap on — crisp, white, 5000K. The meter says 80 foot-candles on the ice. The energy consulta...
If you manage a rink, you've stared at the hour meter on your Zamboni and wondered: is the schedule right? Every 100 hours change the oil, every 200 g...
You walk the rink every morning. Maybe you notice a hairline crack near the boards, or a spot where the ice seems a little softer. But do you look at ...
Here is a scene I have watched play out four times in the last two years. A rink architect hands the mechanical engineer a cut sheet with a 20-ton deh...
Every few months, I get a call from a rink manager who just spent $12,000 on a design for a new chiller plant. The plans look great. The renderings po...
You have seen it happen. A brand-new rink opens, the cooling plant hums, and within three weeks the ice is unpredictable—soft at center ice, hard at t...