This Inventor Built Backyard Ice on Monday —...
Posted by Colleen O'Shea | Apr 9, 2025 | Outdoor | 0 |
EASILY Convert Your Ice Resurfacing Machine to Ele...
Posted by Colleen O'Shea | Apr 4, 2025 | Arena Equipment, Energy Efficiency, Machines, Revenue Streams | 0 |
For your blade: magnetic bolts
Posted by Colleen O'Shea | Nov 1, 2023 | Arena Equipment | 0 |
Benchmarking: How’s Your Arena Doing?
Posted by Colleen O'Shea | Jul 7, 2023 | Energy Efficiency, Management, Revenue Streams | 0 |
65 Floods, 3 Days, 2 Rinks, 29 Teams. And the Ice ...
Posted by Colleen O'Shea | Apr 5, 2023 | Arena Equipment | 0 |
7 Tips for Making Great Ice ALL SEASON Long
by Colleen O'Shea | Apr 25, 2025 | Arena Equipment, Management | 0 |
These 7 tips for great ice all season long will help you keep your colors from fading so much, and will mean much less on-ice maintenance than before.
Read MoreThis Inventor Built Backyard Ice on Monday — in Chicago!!!
by Colleen O'Shea | Apr 9, 2025 | Outdoor | 0 |
Nick Ricci has developed a paper-based base for outdoor rinks for ice that freezes at 32°F or colder. He calls it “A.I.” – Atmospheric Intelligence — and his time at the Chicago Tribune contributed to his discovery for a reusable, low-cost, recyclable solution for backyard ice rinks.
Read MoreEASILY Convert Your Ice Resurfacing Machine to Electric
by Colleen O'Shea | Apr 4, 2025 | Arena Equipment, Energy Efficiency, Machines, Revenue Streams | 0 |
Scratch below the logging truck wrap and you’ll find a clever orchestra of innovations, grant applications, marketing concepts and community spirit that came together to save money, lower greenhouse gas emissions — and stop wasting waste heat at the arena in Port McNeill, BC.
Read MoreFor your blade: magnetic bolts
by Colleen O'Shea | Nov 1, 2023 | Arena Equipment | 0 |
Make blade changes easier and safer with these magnetic bolts.
Read MoreBenchmarking: How’s Your Arena Doing?
by Colleen O'Shea | Jul 7, 2023 | Energy Efficiency, Management, Revenue Streams | 0 |
Use this ratio to easily benchmark your ice arena to compare it to itself. The Quinton Equation can even help get buy-in for future upgrades.
Read More65 Floods, 3 Days, 2 Rinks, 29 Teams. And the Ice Held Up 100%.
by Colleen O'Shea | Apr 5, 2023 | Arena Equipment | 0 |
Here’s how they keep tournament ice nice in Slave Lake, AB.
Read MoreBrand Slam Webinar Replay
by Colleen O'Shea | Mar 9, 2023 | Curling | 0 |
The replay of the Brand Slam webinar that reviews how the Melfort & District Curling Club attracts investments, members and bonspielers.
Read MoreBrand Slam
by Colleen O'Shea | Feb 26, 2023 | Curling, Fundraising | 0 |
This curling club has a developed a brand that works, encouraging investment and fun. Here’s what they’re doing, and how they’re doing it.
Read MoreThe State of Curling in Norway, Climate Change and Rink Liners
by Colleen O'Shea | Feb 24, 2023 | Curling | 0 |
Norwegian Curlingforbund’s Pål Trulsen, talks curling and climate change in Norway, and using liners instead of ice paint or painted floors.
Read MoreFast, Hard, Beautiful and Much, Much Warmer Ice
by Colleen O'Shea | Jan 25, 2023 | Energy Efficiency | 0 |
The C.H. Foote Memorial Arena in Fraser Lake, BC – photo courtesy of Zion Cruz ...
Read MoreTransforming a Small-Town Curling Rink
by Colleen O'Shea | Jan 25, 2023 | Curling | 0 |
The Elk Point Curling Club transformed their 4-sheet rink and increased their membership.
Read MoreRecycling the Snow Shavings and Other Energy- and Resource- Efficient Solutions for Indoor Ice Rinks
by Colleen O'Shea | Oct 17, 2022 | Arena Equipment | 0 |
With energy costs skyrocketing, curling clubs and indoor ice arenas are scrambling to find energy- and resource-efficient methods. Here are three that you should consider.
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