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Leaders must scramble to retrofit workplaces like hospitals and schools with air conditioning, support farmers switching crops, and build out irrigation systems and water reservoirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The most disruptive part of the retrofit work was carried out first, and included the insulation of shared walls, flooring and the roof.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

And it would have proven more costly to retrofit than the Rose Bowl pool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Jonathon Freye, the trade group’s executive director, said discount carriers are concerned about the cost and time it may take to retrofit fleets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

The Center has since benefitted by a forty-million-dollar retrofit, but there's still enough forest and swamp on the facility for the Border Patrol to put in tracking practice.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

Nearly 50% of Nuveen Green Capital’s deployment activity is focused on new construction, with the rest being allocated to building retrofits for things like solar energy upgrades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

On Net Zero he proposes a "Northern Way", which subsidises the transition, retrofits, cutting bills, and building exportable locally owned industry.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The ADS-B In retrofits might not be compatible with hundreds of planes in the U.S. commercial fleet, according to Bedford, the FAA administrator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

In South Pasadena, with a population of 26,000, building officials said earlier this year the city has no plans to create an inventory of soft-story apartment buildings or consider mandatory retrofits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

The ordinance will take effect April 1, launching an 18-month screening phase where owners of suspected vulnerable buildings will be asked to fill out a form to help determine whether retrofits are needed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

They lived in makeshift apartments and partied in retrofitted warehouses.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Waymo’s taxis are retrofitted existing vehicles with autonomous technology added including cameras and sensors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Alphabet-owned Waymo uses cars from Jaguar and, soon, Hyundai, retrofitted with sensors to function as autonomous vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

A vehicle was retrofitted so that Lillard could drive.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

“I do. To answer yours first...my dad retrofitted my wheelchair so I could run with it.”

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

Waymo retired the design in 2017 and moved forward with retrofitting existing cars with sensors that enable humanless driving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

But when it comes to retrofitting older homes it can be complex due to having to find space for the equipment, which adds to installation costs.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Given the need for retrofitting, remediation, replacement of obsolete utility systems and massive grading involved, Garcia was not surprised by the long development time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

At those levels, buyers can commission their own dream homes instead of retrofitting someone else’s fantasy.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

In April the government approved a legal framework to allow people to convert their petrol and diesel vehicles into electric ones, known as "retrofitting".

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026