retrofit
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The fourth was to retrofit mobile storage systems in the park’s museum storage facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Schneider Electric said the acquisition would combine its technology offer across residential, retrofit and small commercial buildings with Shelly’s software-led home energy platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
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
Many cities have also not acted on requiring retrofits of other types of potentially vulnerable buildings, including those that have certain flaws to their concrete or steel frames.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2025
It’s traditional masculinity retrofitted for a progressive audience.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Milena Nikolova, a partner at Antares, said the firm looks for tech that can be retrofitted into existing infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Nobody knows where the Shakespeare nickname came from, but city officials designated the bridge as L.A.’s Historic-Cultural Monument No. 126 in 1974 and retrofitted it in the 1990s to better withstand earthquakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
These sensors have now been retrofitted to Glen Sannox and will also be fitted on its sister ship MV Glen Rosa which is due for delivery later this year.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Bratton retrofitted a city bus and turned it into a rolling station house, with its own fax machines, phones, holding pen, and fingerprinting facilities.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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But the Passivhaus Trust - for which Baeli is a non-executive director - acknowledges retrofitting your home to this standard is "expensive".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Experts say retrofitting those could be prohibitively expensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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
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
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