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
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
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
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
These efforts don’t have to be expensive, he said, pointing to a list of low-cost retrofits from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
The pair, infatuated with Kraftwerk, Afro-futurism and acid-fried psych rock, retrofitted Detroit funk in the post-disco era with rigorous synthesizers and science-fiction themes on tracks like 1981’s “Alleys of Your Mind.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
It’s traditional masculinity retrofitted for a progressive audience.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
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
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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More than 50 sites will get chargers over the next 18 months, the spokesperson said, and the city has been retrofitting existing public stations and adding chargers at libraries and recreation centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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
Experts say retrofitting those could be prohibitively expensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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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