retrofit

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

“We build new projectors every day, but film projectors, using this film, it’s not practical. So we’ve got to find them and retrofit them and rebuild them, which is what we did for ‘Odyssey.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Nobody actually opposes air conditioning, they insist; the buildings are simply old and hard to retrofit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 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

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 official Dennis Tarango said the city has no plans to create an inventory of soft-story apartment buildings or consider mandatory retrofits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

Bunch said he didn’t initially like the 19th century, castle-like space on the National Mall to be retrofitted for the $1 billion museum, but he said museum leaders convinced him it was a good home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

They lived in makeshift apartments and partied in retrofitted warehouses.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

"Once that multi-gigawatt power infrastructure has been retrofitted to AI or HPC colocation, there is no turning back," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

After both planes landed in the United Kingdom, Trump was videotaped coming down the steps from the larger jet, before making his way to the new retrofitted Air Force One.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Sing Sing, for reasons no one could ever explain to me, has never been retrofitted with gas.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Across the country, entrepreneurs like Gutstadt are capitalizing on the interest by retrofitting unconventional spaces, from parking lots to distribution warehouses, with padel courts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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