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East Bayfield Recreation Centre, Barrie, ON

The East Bayfield Recreation Centre in Barrie, ON was completed in 2003. The facility includes two NHL size hocky rinks, an aquatic centre, gymnasiums, meeting rooms and offices. The facility operates year round.

A horizontal earth loop under the parking lot stores excess heat that can't be used in the building, and provides heat when refrigeration isn't needed for the ice. The Ice Kube fluid-to-fluid heat pumps heat the swimming pool, heat the fluid circulating through the radiant floor piping in the change rooms, lobby, rink apron and the spectator seats. Snow scraped from the ice during resurfacing and snow at the front entrance is melted as well. The heat pumps also provide hot water for showers and flooding the ice surface. Water-to-air heat pumps heat and air condition the building as required, either drawing heat from the earth loop, or rejecting heat into it. An evaporative fluid cooler prevents the earth loop temperature from becoming too warm.

Natural gas is not used in the building, eliminating the production of approximately 1,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year.

The headers for the rink surface are located in the mechanical room rather than under the ice or in a header trench at the end of the rink. The rink surface pipe is placed to conform to the rink surface, eliminating the frozen concrete outside the rink corners that is common in many rinks. The high-density polyethylene rink pipe, rated at 160 psi, is installed without connections in the concrete or under the ice, virtually eliminating potential leaks in the system.