Santa Giulia Hockey Arena: high-tech ice for the world’s hockey elite
The Milano Santa Giulia Ice Hockey Arena, one of the key venues for the ice hockey competitions at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games, sets new standards for elite international sports. Thanks to specialized refrigeration technology, the arena delivers extremely durable and fast ice that maintains its perfect structure even during the most intense Olympic games and sharp changes of direction.
On the precisely temperature-controlled surface, the state-of-the-art substructure, combined with advanced water treatment, ensures ideal puck glide and maximum grip for the athletes. With the ICEmaster® system, this quality is monitored and controlled in real time around the clock.
Ice surface: 1,800 m² | Length: 60 m | Width: 30 m | Ice control: real-time monitoring with ICEmaster® | Safety: ImpactPro® dasher board system
Project goals
- Create a professional Olympic ice surface for the world’s top athletes
- Deliver a consistently hard ice structure for optimal puck control
- Ensure the highest ice quality at sea level through advanced water treatment
- Enable simple and flexible ice monitoring with ICEmaster® anytime, anywhere
- Ensure safety at high speeds with the latest generation of dasher board technology
- Deliver and install the complete mobile infrastructure on schedule
Why REALICE – Intercom Dr. Leitner?
- Flexible track and layout system with ICEconnect
- Objective monitoring and automated control of ice quality across the entire facility, available on-site and remotely via smartphone with ICEmaster®
- Customized dasher board system with integrated LED lighting
- Refrigeration technology with an optimized environmental footprint
- Technical expertise and many years of experience
- Ice resurfacing machines
- ECOmelt — a globally unique snow-melting system
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- Olympic performance: Perfect professional ice even at the highest level of game intensity.
- Safety through ImpactPro®: Highly flexible dasher board systems for maximum player protection.
- Real-time precision: Continuous monitoring of ice quality with ICEmaster®.
- Sustainable event infrastructure: Complete flexibility through residue-free dismantling of the mobile facility after the Games, enabling environmentally responsible reuse.
Technische Lösung
- ICEmaster ®
- Biodegradable glycol
- ICEplus ® System
- ICEconnect
- ImpactPro ® dasher board systems
