Photo Credit: Courtesy of Recreation,Culture & Community Services staff
The expansion of the Quinte Sports & Wellness Centre in the city of Bellville (Ontario, Canada), is designed to do more than deliver heart-pounding exercise on state-of-the-art equipment—it also recaptures its own heat and uses it elsewhere in the facility.
In a $35-million project that expanded the building to more than 300,000 square feet and added an artificial sports field to a nearby park, the facility is now capable of reclaiming heat in the process of making ice for one of the four ice surfaces and reusing it to heat spectator seating, snow melt pits, walkways, floors, sink and shower water, and air space. It is estimated that a total of 98 cents of every dollar used in the ice-making process is captured and reused.
And if that’s not enough, waste heat is captured through the air-exchange system in the aquatic center, and a total of 95 cents of every dollar is effectively reused to heat the facility’s pools.