Ice Rink Design & Planning Documents
The following documents have been assembled to help with your planning and design process and are the result of my 25 plus years in the ice rink business. I have selected some of the more requested and needed information from our extensive library of documentation and information with the intent of making your job of planning and design both easier and faster. If you are an architect or engineer and need any of the below drawings in an AutoCad format, simply let us know and we will gladly provide it.
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John Burley
jburley@adelphia.net
http://arenawatch.org/
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Ever thought of building an ice rink?
The rink is the key to all hockey development
In the beginning, ice hockey had its definite limits. It could only be played in places where you had natural ice from December until at the latest March. And those were the long seasons! This is why North America, Scandinavia, the former Soviet Union and a handful of other countries had an early jump in this game.
Today, the International Ice Hockey Federation has 63 national member federations. Some of the countries with hockey programs and leagues include the United Arab Emirates, Israel, South Africa, Australia and Singapore. In the United States, there is high level ice hockey played in cities like Los Angeles, Tampa and Dallas.
The reason, of course, is rinks with artificialice. Only some ten years ago, ice hockey in some of the places mentioned above was a good joke. Not anymore. Rinks with artificial ice can be built anywhere, even in the desert or south of the equator.
The problems associated with building artificial ice rinks could be summarized in these two questions:
1. How do we start ?
2. Isn’t it far too expensive ?
In order to show communities all over the planet that an ice rink is not one of the seventh wonders of the world, the IIHF decided to put a group of experts together to create a rink manual. The goal of the manual is to help communities and hockey enthusiasts to build ice rinks in their neighborhoods, at reasonable costs.
This manual targets ice hockey clubs with an ambition to build a community rink, the decision makers within communities or municipalities, and construction entrepreneurs. As the President of the International Ice Hockey Federation I am proud to present this manual: “Ever thought of building an ice rink” ? This is the first manual of its kind in regards to ice rinks.
Chapter 1: You can build an ice rink everywhere
1.1 Introduction of the Manual/IIHF Prototype
1.2 Introduction to ice hockey
Chapter 2: Social interest of an ice rink
2.1 Interest of the community
2.2 Activity programs and services
2.3 Ice rinks throughout the world
Chapter 3: Technical guidelines of an ice rink
3.1 General introduction
3.2 Sizing the ice rinks
3.3 IIHF prototype definition
3.4 Materials and structural systems for an ice rink
3.5 Mechanical and electrical plant
3.6 Energy consumption optimisation
3.7 Environmental effects
Chapter 4: Economic profile of the IIHF ice rink prototype
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Construction costs
4.3 Operational budget
Chapter 5: Financing
5.1 Construction costs / Investment costs
5.2 Operational costs
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