Ice Station Ice Hockey Facility
Valencia, California

The owners and engineers were told that they should consider using AES daylight harvesting skylights in their new facility. The end result would be a light conditioning system that would reduce their lighting "no" hours by 80% of daylight hours and greatly increase the visual comfort of the skaters.

The standard thought was that skylights would greatly increase the need for refrigerant to keep the ice frozen & create annoying shadows. After complete testing, AES showed the Thermal scan report and the R48 insulating rating of their skylights. They also proposed (prior to having induction) a multi-lamped 2x2 fluorescent lighting system to replace the more common 400-watt metal halide system. If you look closely, the artificial lighting fixtures are "off".

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