A planned new indoor snow centre, Winter Sports World, proposed for Penrith near Sydney in Australia will be entirely powered by a 1.2 megawatt power supply of photovoltaic solar cells on the roof, the team behind the project say. That’s the equivalent of powering 220 homes with photovoltaic panels, feeding into an on-site battery storage facility.The $300 million development will

The Italian-headquartered snowmaking company Demaclenko has created a new all-weather snowmaking machine which the company says offers, “…an unprecedented solution for efficient and powerful snowmaking when it’s not freezing.” Working with the Austrian-based company 3CON, a specialist in interior production systems, Demaclenko has christened their technology ‘Snow4Ever 200’ and states, “What’s revolutionary about Demaclenko’s technology is that real technical snow,

A website that says it is, “your trusted shortcut to booking travel that’s good, and makes you feel good,” has listed the Chill Factore indoor snow centre as one of the best options for people planning a first date in the city of Manchester. “Bored of going out for a meal with a stranger or fancy spicing up your dates

Design Partners at 10 Design, Chin Yong Ng and Lukasz Wawrzenczyk, have won an invited competition to design the latest new giant indoor snow centre from the Sunac group – Shenzhen Snow World. The new centre will be part of a wider development of the Sunac-Huafa Snow Tourism World in the Bao’an district of Shenzhen. Sunac is already one of

Saudi Arabia has announced that it is hoping to find ski and snowboard competitors to represent the kingdom at next winter’s 2022 Olympics in Beijing. The country is also set to become home to the fourth largest indoor snow centre in the world, and the largest outside China, next year. The Saudi Winter Sports Federation has been placing adverts seeking

What is being billed as “one of the world’s largest snow parks” is due to open “later this year” as part of a giant new mall complex in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the people behind it say. Construction of the massive USD $1.2billon Reem Mall retail project and surrounding transport link upgrades are reported to be currently

The Mall of Oman, from the Majid Al Futtaim group which gave us Ski Dubai and the more recent Ski Egypt, is on course to open as scheduled this September, complete with a 14,000 square metre indoor snow park, the company says. There’s not a great deal of detail on the indoor snowpark yet but its reported size places it

After earlier reports from Australia indicated there were expectations that the proposed $300-million indoor Winter Sports World at Penrith near Sydney would be rejected by councillors as it weas far higher than buildings normally allowed in the location where it is proposed to be built, Penrith Council have given the project the initial green light. First proposed in 2018 the

Alpine-X, the company behind the planned $225m Fairfax Peak indoor snow centre due to be built in Virginia, say they intend it to be one of many indoor snow centres they plan to build across North America over the coming years. When the Fairfax Peak proposals were first announced several years ago the company said they were planning at least

Over the 30+ years that there have been indoor snow centres there has been a battle to have the country’s, continent’s or world’s longest indoor snow slope. Some say we shouldn’t be so obsessed with the slope’s length, they say as big, sometimes a bigger concern is the width of the slope, or whether there are several slopes. They argue