Burnaby’s new South Burnaby ice arena could have been up and running by now if its dramatic wooden beams hadn’t been ordered from Italy and Austria. When the project, now named the Rosemary Brown Arena, broke ground in September 2019, the city estimated it would be up and running by the fall of 2021. But a report to the city’s financial management committee last week said it is now expected to be complete in December 2022. Coun. Sav Dhaliwal asked how confident director of civic building projects Tim Van Driel was in the new completion date since the timeline has continued to “slip.” Van Driel said “the main source of all that delay” was the building’s mass timber, which the city has confirmed was ordered from Austria and Italy. “Every single stick” of the timber has now been delivered, however, so Van Driel said he’s confident the arena will be finished by December 2022.