A skating rink requires powerful lighting to cover the entire surface area and meet the French Ice Hockey Federation‘s standards to ensure players and members are comfortable while maintaining visual comfort. At Speqtris Sport, our lighting has been designed to meet this demand!
LED floodlights are the ideal cost-effective solution for your ice rink. Unlike older metal halide floodlights, their energy consumption is approximately half that of traditional floodlights and they don’t require a warm-up period to operate at peak performance.
To ensure your ice rink is properly equipped to meet the FFHG’s requirements, don’t hesitate to consult our sports lighting guide !
It is crucial to choose the right LED equipment to ensure lighting meets the requirements of the French Ice Hockey Federation. This will allow both players and spectators to clearly follow the play and the puck, thus maximizing the quality of the matches.
The Speqtris Sport team offers its expertise to offer tailor-made solutions, perfectly adapted to your facility, while committing to respecting the lighting criteria defined by the FFHG. When lighting an ice hockey rink, it is essential to clearly identify the category of play, as this determines the required brightness level.
All our sports projects are based on the NF EN 12193 standard and the FFHG lighting standards. It is essential to rely on these documents to ensure quality lighting in each rink.
Featuring the highest power of our floodlights, this model is essential for illuminating large playing areas.
Available in five power ratings ranging from 600 to 1800W and offering a luminous efficacy of 160lm/W, this range is suitable for all types of pitches. It will ensure optimal lighting uniformity depending on the playing category and the placement of the lighting lines, ensuring that no part of the playable area is overlooked.
Our symmetrical or asymmetrical optics allow the luminaire to be adjusted from 0 to 90°, providing a lighting solution suitable for all possible installation configurations.
At Speqtris Sport, the lifespan of a Goliath projector is calculated according to the L70, L80, or L90 standards.
To maintain optimal lighting performance, regular maintenance of your projectors is strongly recommended. Exposed to humidity, luminaires can accumulate dust due to melting ice and subsequent water evaporation, which can cause the optics to become cloudy.
We therefore recommend cleaning your projectors from time to time to ensure perfect visual comfort throughout their lifetime.
| Lifespan | at 25°C | at 30°C | at 45°C |
| L70 | 326 000h | 300 000h | 287 000h |
| L80 | 197 000h | 175 000h | 162 000h |
| L90 | 82 000h | 80 000h | 78 000h |
Certified to IP66 (protection against moisture and dust) and IK10 (protection against impact), these floodlights effectively protect against moisture and possible collisions, thus addressing durability and performance issues.
The French Ice Hockey Federation recommends ice rink lighting for two levels of play :
| Categories | A | B | C | D | E |
| Competition | 1 000 Lux | 1 000 Lux | 600 Lux | 600 Lux | 400 Lux |
| Training | 750 Lux | 750 Lux | 600 Lux | 400 Lux | 400 Lux |
Horizontal Lighting Uniformity Factor :
To achieve optimal uniformity and minimize shadows, a uniformity factor of ≥ 0.7 should be maintained for each competition category. Experience has shown that for ice hockey, it’s best to aim for a uniformity factor of around 0.9.
The CCTP (Special Technical Clauses Book) is a necessary document for any public contract. It allows you to determine the buyer’s needs. For the lighting of football pitch(s), lighting standards must be respected in order to ensure the conformity of each pitch to be lit.
According to the French Ice Hockey Federation’s lighting standard :
According to the French Ice Hockey Federation’s lighting standard :
New rink :
Existing rink :
According to the French Ice Hockey Federation’s lighting standard :
According to the French Ice Hockey Federation’s lighting standard :
To ensure that the uniformity factor is respected, the French Ice Hockey Federation provided us with a diagram of the different lighting measurement points :
Dimensions can vary from one rink to another, which means that the light will not be distributed in the same way. For this reason, based on our experience, we find several measurements that we have listed in the table below :
| Size | Maximum | Average | Minimum |
| Skating rink | 60 x 30m | 58 x 28m | 56 x 26m |
| Radii of curvature | 7 à 8.50m | ||
To save energy, we invented our lighting management box, the VariBOX.
By replacing old, energy-intensive lighting fixtures (metal halide lamps) with LED spotlights, the savings are approximately 50%.
By adding a VariBOX with the right options installed, you can save up to 80% in total energy !
Common light levels
Recommended options for ice rink lighting management
Ice Skating VariBOX – The most useful options
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Variable brightness sensor if there is only one brightness level to adapt the brightness based on the external light entering the rink.
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DMX lighting animation to create animation in the rink with a remote control or a console to trigger the animations.
With over 13 years of field experience and projects, we’ve designed a range of lighting layouts and installations for each sport using our sports guide.
This tool will allow you to quickly find the photometric studies corresponding to your project and define and recommend the appropriate equipment for the desired lighting result.
