retrofit

Technology investors are increasingly launching so-called AI roll-ups, in which they buy and retrofit older businesses with AI to improve profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

The fourth was to retrofit mobile storage systems in the park’s museum storage facility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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

The switch raised questions about the gifted jet that the U.S. spent $400 million to retrofit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 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

Most of Walmart’s supply-chain buildings were built in the 1980s and ’90s, so about 80% of its automation construction projects are retrofits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

There are industry divides over which bill allows more flexibility to comply with new mandates and whether airlines should be required to make potentially costly retrofits of cockpit systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

More recently built structures need fewer upgrades and may not require seismic retrofits to meet safety codes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 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

It’s traditional masculinity retrofitted for a progressive audience.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

Kieran Maguire, professor of football finance at the University of Liverpool, told BBC Sport the commission found "the documents were retrofitted to fit the crime".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

They lived in makeshift apartments and partied in retrofitted warehouses.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

For excursions on land, Green Safaris’s lodges have retrofitted Land Rovers to run on batteries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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

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

Jones noted that the state offers grants through the Earthquake Brace+Bolt program to partially cover the cost of retrofitting older single-family homes that can slide off their foundation in an earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

The Senate’s mandate would generally be more prescriptive on retrofitting aircraft, while the House’s version would allow more flexibility in how to comply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 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