About Facility
The Andover Center Ice Club in Andover, Minnesota, is a prominent organization dedicated to promoting ice sports excellence and community involvement. Situated in the heart of Andover, this club serves as a vital hub for skaters, hockey players, and enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels.
The Andover Center Ice Club boasts state-of-the-art facilities, including multiple ice rinks meticulously maintained to the highest standards. These rinks provide an optimal setting for a variety of ice sports, including hockey, figure skating, and recreational skating. With modern amenities such as heated seating areas, spacious locker rooms, and a welcoming lobby, the club ensures a comfortable and enjoyable experience for participants and spectators alike.
As the home of the Andover Huskies hockey teams and various skating programs, the Andover Center Ice Club plays a pivotal role in fostering athletic development and nurturing young talent within the community. In addition to organized sports, the club offers a diverse range of programs and events, including public skating sessions, learn-to-skate programs, and community fundraisers, catering to individuals of all ages and interests.
“You don’t have enough talent to win on talent alone.”
Herb Brooks – 1980 Miracle on Ice Olympic Coach
Scope of Work
The Andover ice system includes an industrial grade refrigeration system that is designed for year round operation and providing efficient operation, low maintenance, and high performance. The system will serve the facility for over 25 years. The ice arena also has a layout that allows easy access to all equipment for safe and easy operation and maintenance. This arena has a waste heat recovery system that captures “free heat” from the refrigeration system and uses it for melting ice shavings in the snow melt pit and for heating the sub-soils beneath the ice rink floor for frost protection. And finally the rink has a sand floor with a fusion welded polyethylene piping system which makes for a seamless, low maintenance design. The construction of this facility took place in 2003 and in 2018 City of Andover continued with a rink expansion, which B32 Engineering assisted with this continued project.