Essex Rink Construction Photos
Welcome to Casey's Page!... Over the course of the summer, I will be taking pictures of the progress being made on the complete renovation of the Essex Skating Facility. This is a fun and long overdue project.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to get in touch with myself or Noel Boutin through the contact info located at the bottom of this page. Anything you want more pictures or information on, let me know and I will be more then happy to fill you in.
Thanks for looking and get ready for the New Essex Skating Facility, coming October 2007!
The ice has finally be installed and is ready to go for the season. The year marks the 35th seaon that the Essex Skating Facility has been open to the public. Day 1 was back on Jan. 20th, 1973
The end of September is here and the rink season is just about to get under way in Essex... The compressors were started on the 24th. Projects inside are starting to be completed... The new lights are BRIGHT and will be a welcome change. The Coin-op controllers are the new heaters are set for $1.oo for 30 mins, have not been installed yet, but soon. The new bleachers arrive onsite the first week of October should be all set for Opening day
Rink progress has been a little slow over the last month. Most of the progress attention has been put onto the school side of things. Rubber flooring has been going down slowly over the last few weeks as rooms become available, and locker room lighting has been hooked up to motion sensors now! The equipment for the Skate sharpening room has arrived, New Sharpener, work bench with riviting supplys, skate book stretcher, skate boot warmer.
The end of July is hear and quite a bit has happened in the last few weeks. New exterior walls have been constructed and brick added to the exterior. The locker rooms have been painted and rubber flooring was beginning to be laid down this week. The HS Boys Locker room has been gutted and is under going a makeover as well.
July 9, 2007
Just a few news tidbits for people to know!
New Heaters have been installed for the bleacher areas..They are going to be coin-operatored, so it is a self-service setup
Bleachers are going to be replaced with all new. They will not be installed until sometime in November. So, the rink will be bleacher-less for the first 5 weeks of operation, bring a chair or lean up on the glass!
The cost for an hour of ice has increased to $150 an hour over the rate of $135 last year
Here are some shots from June 21st and June 26st. The staging has been removed to reveal the new exterior of the addition
On Friday, June 8th, 2007.. The pouring of the concrete on the Rink floor took place. The frist concrete came out of the trucks around 7:30 am and went non-stop until about 1:30 pm. The 6 hour pour used about ~230 yards of concrete in pouring the 5 inch slab. Each concrete truck holds 10 yards, so there was a bit of action at the pump truck.
** Pics Added 6-17-07 **
See pics of what will be hiding under and in the concrete that supports the ice surface...
** New Pics Added 6-17-07 **
Here is some pics of the compressor plant during its construction in Edmonton, and of being installed on site in Essex
**New Pics Added 6-17-07**
See what has been happening over the last 3 weeks
Took a quick walkthrough on Tuesday, May 1st, and got pics of the progress
Checkout what the demolition of the building looked like starting back in March 2007
New locker room space and access to them
Checkout the removal of the old Compressor system out of the back room and out of the rink
Located inside this Gallery are pics of any and everything in the Essex Skating Facility before the construction started.... A peek at the past that everyone came to enjoy
**New Pics Added 5-27-07**
The construction and renovation of the Essex Rink and entire One Campus Project could not have been undertaken or completed without the help of this companies. Feel free to checkout their pages and see what they bring to the table!
Suppliers of new dasher boards and netting around the rink
In charge of installing all the HVAC equipment into the Rink Complex
The General Contractor responsible for the construction of the OneCampus Project
Responsible for all the demolition of the interior of the existing rink
Poured the concrete for the addition for the front addition of the Rink
The suppliers and installer of the new refrigeration equipment + arena floor
Poured the Concrete for the Rink floor and under the Bleachers
The Architect for the OneCampus project
