In Rouen, an ice rink to match the ambitions of the hockey club

With fifteen titles of champions of France Elite, six cups of France and two coronations of European champions of the continental cup, the Dragons of Rouen Hockey Élite are references in this sport which arrived in Normandy in the 1970s. For their training and the home games, until today they have enjoyed an approved ice rink at the Guy-Boissière center, built 26 years ago.

But the ambient humidity and the wear of time no longer did justice to the 250,000 spectators per year and 1,300 licensees for 4 clubs (the amateurs of the Amateur Hockey Club of Rouen, the Rouen Olympic Club, the Espar and of course the professionals from RHE76).

There was also a desire “to go upmarket for the public and for a better economic balance.

The Rouen Normandy Metropolis needed equipment of international scope, ”explains Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, the mayor of the city of Rouen and president of the Rouen Normandie metropolis.

An extension of around 1,500 m2

Since the start of work in February 2019, the structure of the main building has benefited from a thermal improvement and reinforcement of the insulation of its roof.

In addition to low-consumption lighting, the engineers reviewed the treatment and the very important air quality in this environment saturated with humidity.

The Guy Boissière Center has grown by around 1,500 m2.

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For the fun skating rink, it is the reception of the public that has been prioritized with a total repair of the skate bank and the creation of an elevator for people with reduced mobility.

You have to slide to the side of the Olympic ice rink to discover, among other things, the rehabilitation of changing rooms and sanitary facilities of the professional club and amateur clubs, the installation of a video cube to ensure the show during the matches and especially the extension of approximately 1,500 m2.

It includes premises assigned to the professional club such as the laundromat and the skate sharpening room, the addition of 332 additional seats bringing the tonnage to 3,078 spectators, refreshments and finally a reception area completed by six VIP boxes with direct access and view. impregnable on the ice.

The total cost of this project is € 9.2 million.

The new complex has VIP areas.

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This new complex should have been inaugurated at the launch of the first day of the championship on Saturday, September 26 against Bordeaux.

But cases of covid having been detected in the team, the match is postponed.

Thus, the start of the river shuttle experiment to bring fans from a parking lot on the right bank of Rouen to Île Lacroix will also have to wait.