Large-scale building upgrades have been tried before, including in the 2009 stimulus, which put $4.5 billion toward retrofitting federal buildings and $3 billion toward retrofitting public housing projects.
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That said, some companies are offering up a retrofitting service.
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Retrofitting existing pumps can cost more than $6,000, Taylor said.
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But we are not retrofitting movies to win Oscars, no.
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Maersk Line is retrofitting its ships to collect more data.
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For those driving older vehicles, some retrofitting will be possible.
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My NFL analysis often amounts to: stop retrofitting reasons for things.
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And retrofitting that crumbling electric grid is probably their best chance.
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Buying trucks and retrofitting them with self-driving hardware is expensive.
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"Therefore we want that there are possibilities of retrofitting," he added.
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The retrofitting of Notre Dame Stadium was just the first step.
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And retrofitting an apartment built without ductwork could be prohibitively expensive.
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That's another reason why retrofitting an existing bike makes sense to Biderman.
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Was there any complication with retrofitting those old lenses for modern cameras?
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Or of the mandated retrofitting of every single building in the country?
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Most people are implementing different SQL technologies and retrofitting them into GPUs.
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A construction team is busy retrofitting the venue into Jeppe's dream brewery.
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They were excited by the challenge of retrofitting a bike for him.
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Prud'Homme would not disclose details about the division's sales or margins from retrofitting.
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The bill would provide for retrofitting one million units of federally-owned housing.
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She said they're also replacing and retrofitting mailboxes to make them fishing-resistant.
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Decarbonization will also involve a mind-boggling amount of manufacturing, building, and retrofitting.
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Most cities deploy small retrofitting projects like lighting improvements to reduce climate emissions.
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By 22015 they had partially refurbished the site, retrofitting office and industrial space.
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But you still have to deal with window by window, door by door retrofitting.
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Tightening new constructions standards, retrofitting existing buildings and managing consumption better would all help.
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The company claims that retrofitting almost any store will be a relatively simple task.
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It also includes investment in thousands of jobs retrofitting buildings and expanding renewable energy.
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What Magna brings to the table is the retrofitting of micro transit electric cars.
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Soon, we may begin to see people retrofitting their cars to be completely autonomous.
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A patchwork of retrofitting rules means thousands of older buildings have not been strengthened.
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San Francisco's $267 million earthquake retrofitting for its Transbay Tube is proof of that.
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For the initial pilot deployment, Tortoise is retrofitting existing scooters with robotic training wheels.
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He points to new solutions to 21st-century challenges rather than retrofitting old ideas.
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And for retrofitting older buildings to be more energy efficient, wood is a good insulator.
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JetBlue is retrofitting some of its Airbus A320s, taking them from 150 seats to 162.
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In the meantime, the founders are focused on retrofitting that Netflix model to consumer finance.
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They are retrofitting abandoned McDonald's restaurants throughout the city of Donetsk and rebranding them DonMaks.
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The apartment building Alpha Structural is retrofitting is one of those city-identified vulnerable buildings.
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That option can even include retrofitting the home with features like ramps and grab bars.
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It has really taken off because it makes building and retrofitting more cost-effective and practical.
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Gaylard has since passed away, but now scientists are retrofitting the thing, which hasn't been easy.
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In San Francisco, a similar city law for retrofitting soft-story buildings was enacted in 2013.
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The fourth and last phase of retrofitting the city's soft-story buildings wraps in September 216.
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"Carmen," directed and adapted by Ms. Proske, achieves its impact by retrofitting the characters and story.
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So, as opposed to retrofitting ... Do you do a lot of work with venture capitalists, then?
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That includes retrofitting houses -- which makes them stronger and can help save money on insurance and repairs.
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The vehicles will be sent to the new manufacturing facility for installation and retrofitting after it opens.
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Birmingham council has pledged to spend up to £31m retrofitting its 213 tower blocks with sprinkler systems.
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Rather than retrofitting today's cars with AV technology, Zoox is designing its own self-driving electric vehicle.
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It would also require a study to assess the feasibility of retrofitting existing vehicles with the system.
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Some dairy groups have been focused on the rebranding and retrofitting of the Margin Protection Program (MPP).
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Unfortunately, retrofitting such a payment system to the behemoth that is the MTA network will take time.
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JetBlue for example, is retrofitting some of its Airbus A320s, taking them from 150 seats to 162.
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Mr. McKevitt has begun retrofitting his other 25 locations for cash-free transactions and self-service checkouts.
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Ms. Masi said Brookfield is retrofitting existing units to work with Ori, testing it in various layouts.
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That means Apple could probably make a quick buck by retrofitting some old iPhones for modern use.
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Father Spadaro said he was alarmed by the retrofitting of a mystical apocalyptical worldview into conservative Catholicism.
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It is also subsidizing the cost of retrofitting older diesel cars to upgrade their emissions filtering systems.
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But for older buildings and architecture, especially in cities, retrofitting and modifications can be more difficult to implement.
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Without any retrofitting of ships to meet the new rules, many firms may be forced out of business.
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Among its retrofitting orders, Bombardier won a $255 million contract to upgrade trains in Australia earlier this month.
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My passenger is Zelectric's CEO, David Benardo, who specializes in retrofitting VWs from the late 2120s and 250s.
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It is a myth that retrofitting an older home with smart technology is too difficult or too expensive.
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Yet this simple retrofitting doesn't fully capture the effects of the new playoff system on the WNBA, either.
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Engineers have been retrofitting those canals with pumps to get water out of them even during high tides.
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Under the current NFIP, retrofitting a building is one of the few ways to qualify for premium reductions.
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And other solar fuels like methanol or ethanol could be burned in today's gas engines, without any retrofitting.
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Otto says it will keep operating independently, moving toward its mission of retrofitting trucks with self-driving tech.
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At a minimum, that means retrofitting their networks, computers, and applications with encryption that can withstand a quantum attack.
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This Chicago-based company's technology is akin to retrofitting a brewery onto an emission source, like a steel mill.
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At the same time, Coleman compared working on diversity at a company with 12,000 employees to retrofitting a house.
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Bombardier declined to comment on New York, but the company spokesman sees demand for retrofitting as manufacturing costs rise.
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He was impressed with the retrofitting technology and with the idea that this technology can help contractors save money.
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The head of the Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that such retrofitting could take three to four weeks.
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Some of us are retrofitting our living situations, living in basements, shutting off parts of the house, and more.
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Several of the facilities selected within DOE's FEED-study support include retrofitting natural gas-fired power plants with CCS.
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Cranfield University, which specialises in aeronautics, is working on something simpler for the Islander—retrofitting it with electric power.
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Autonomous driving is more likely to involve the retrofitting of existing trucks rather than the building of new trucks.
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Besides creative thinking, science and facts also are needed for new approaches to retrofitting for energy efficiency to gain traction.
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In the interim, however, it should not rely on retrofitting a patchwork of regulations that were written for manned aircraft.
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The technology is built in and it would be nearly impossible to replicate its features by retrofitting a traditional oven.
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Instead, ETFMG is retrofitting an existing ETF, the Tierra XP Latin America Real Estate ETF (LARE), with a new strategy.
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Yet more arduous labors lie ahead: rebuilding communities, retrofitting ancient structures and edifices with earthquake-proof technology and restoring normalcy.
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Alpha Structural is retrofitting the apartment complex's ground floor, installing much thicker steel beams and columns, rebar and heavier plywood.
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Fitzgerald is the industry's largest dealer in retrofitting the trucks by selling so-called glider kit trucks, for about $21,2600.
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Dan Patrick, one of the participants, has called for arming teachers and possibly retrofitting schools to limit exits and entrances.
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Planning for the future Retrofitting buildings for solar power is another way Green The Church is making congregations more sustainable.
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We learn how he pioneered using Jet Skis to tow surfers to unreachable peaks and still experiments with retrofitting boards.
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"The good news is that people are thinking about it sooner, as opposed to retrofitting after the fact," she said.
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Whether it is 4K, 5K, high-definition or ultra-high definition, each next-generation technology will require retrofitting our infrastructure.
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Her Green New Deal, which would overhaul the nation's economy, calls for retrofitting all buildings for energy efficiency within 10 years.
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Engineers are already exploring the possibility of training real-life action in virtual worlds, retrofitting games like GTA for this task.
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"I've witnessed a bunch of creative ways people have been modifying or retrofitting scooters to adapt to their lifestyle," he said.
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The seed bank had already been planning to do some retrofitting to keep some "water intrusion" from getting into the tunnel.
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Prud'Homme said retrofitting can generally accommodate agencies by conducting the work when cars are taken out of service for regular maintenance.
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United Continental – United announced plans to add more premium seats on key business travel routes by retrofitting more than 100 jets.
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United Continental (UAL) announced plans to add more premium seats on key business travel routes by retrofitting more than 100 jets.
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The city allows property owners to take years, and depending on the building type, decades to complete the retrofitting process, however.
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California has not had a major earthquake in two decades, but seismic retrofitting is a constant worry in Golden State infrastructure.
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That means upgrading and retrofitting structures to use less energy and emit less is a critical tactic in fighting climate change.
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Legislation would pay for everything from retrofitting schools with bulletproof glass and panic buttons to adding and training armed resource officers.
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BMW, Daimler, Opel and Volkswagen will carry out retrofitting after approval from the KBA, Germany's federal motor authority, the VDA said.
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This was an attempt to innovate by leveraging synergies with its existing operations and retrofitting its culture for a new world.
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What New York City has proposed is retrofitting buildings of 234,235 square feet or more to make them more energy-efficient. 236.
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Siemens would invest in the latest technologies, retrofitting factories, purchasing new efficient machinery and transitioning all operations to renewable power by 2020.
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On the Avis side, the deal means retrofitting existing owned real estate for housing the minivans, though not acquiring any more space.
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" Fewer entrances"We may have to look at the design of our schools moving forward and retrofitting schools that are already built.
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The company is now retrofitting some of its existing aircraft with a battery-electric propulsion system from magniX, an electric drivetrain manufacturer.
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The researchers started with a RepRap Pro Ormerod 1 printer, retrofitting it with a custom syringe to handle cheese instead of plastic.
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Retrofitting every mile of PG&E's lines, every rotting pole, every rusting bolt is hardly impossible, but it is decidedly not profitable.
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That suggests there is more to be done to promote the retrofitting with seismic protection of older buildings, as Chile has done.
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If the plan is approved by a panel of experts, retrofitting could begin in late winter or early spring, the Chronicle reported.
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As well as tanking freight rates, new environmental regulations requiring new installations and retrofitting may contribute to more young vessels getting scrapped.
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Now Smith is retrofitting the building so that excess heat from the data center computers gets siphoned off to warm the offices.
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An e-ticket system for the subway will require massive, expensive infrastructure changes, such as retrofitting the turnstiles at all 469 stations.
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The costs of evaluating and retrofitting old structures are prohibitive for many in this corner of Italy, an easy drive from Rome.
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With her new bus, George set to work moving out of Pomona housing and retrofitting the bus into a place to live.
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It's hard enough to retrofit a relatively modern masonry building; I'm not sure what strategies even exist for retrofitting a medieval village.
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There are, however, still independent after-market autonomous solutions companies like AutonomouStuff that are already retrofitting vehicles to be fully self-driven.
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Mr. Constantinides said the state law could "multiply into the hundreds of thousands" of jobs in fields like retrofitting and renewable energy.
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That includes fines and other penalties, payments to authorities and the cost of compensation and retrofitting vehicles, according to a company spokesperson.
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What New York City has proposed is retrofitting buildings of 25,000 square feet or more to make them more energy efficient. 72.
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"As a country, the discussion jumps too quickly to relocation, and we don't spend enough time on retrofitting or flood-proofing," he said.
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Retrofitting all its cabins will be a long and expensive proposition, one that could be made cheaper by a modular system like Transpose.
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By 2021, Hurtigruten aims to operate a fully hybrid fleet, retrofitting all its 16 ships with a combination of LNG, batteries and biogas.
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The second quarter 2017 will see "the continuing retrofitting on the existing portfolio and the completion of Varia's equity deployment", the company said.
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Retrofitting New York's coastlines is vital, but perhaps the lesson in organizing together is what will be called on in decades to come.
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Almost every city in Los Angeles County has mandated retrofitting those, but in, say, San Bernardino, only (a few) cities have mandated retrofit.
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According to Katoen Natie, the retrofitting of the trucks will cost up to $142,000 each — more than the cost of the vehicle itself.
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"We also do not condone Lyft's unauthorized modification or retrofitting of our electric scooters for general public use," Xiaomi wrote in its letter.
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Right now, the companies are focusing on retrofitting a six-passenger de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, a plane first flown in 1947.
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Nepal is similar but different: effective retrofitting is difficult if not impossible, but cultural issues take a distant back seat to resource limitations.
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While there are substantial opportunities in retrofitting and upgrading existing urban infrastructure, the really big numbers come from smart design of new infrastructure.
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That sort of retrofitting capability is key for a young company, Harley says, because a more innovative competitor can easily take one's place.
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The big picture: The trend of retrofitting abandoned malls is catching on in more and more communities, reports the Washington Post's Abha Bhattarai.
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The technology will require the mass retraining of employees and substantial retrofitting of ships, including the installation of roughly 7,000 sensors per boat.
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The Pentagon had explored the possibility of retrofitting the existing bomblet stockpile with more reliable fuzes but decided it would be too expensive.
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The bottom line: Carbon-capturing tech is still in its infancy, and experts say retrofitting power plants with the technology will be expensive.
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"The largest untapped source of energy savings is retrofitting homes for better insulation," former Alaska Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Regardless, property owners are worried that the necessary retrofitting and refurbishments needed to meet the impending law's expectations will cost them billions of dollars.
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The company eventually settled for a more modest (and already-built) facility in Hanford, California that it is currently retrofitting to build the FF91.
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When new standards for tailpipe emissions are set, they apply only to new cars (reasonably so, since retrofitting old cars would be very expensive).
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The company raised a $3 million seed round in 2012 and demoed its wears at CES 2013 by retrofitting a rented house in Vegas.
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But retrofitting chaotic districts with roads and sewers will be slow, hard and pricey: some homes must be knocked down and their owners compensated.
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Change from the bottom up Altigreen, founded in 221, started out retrofitting diesel and petrol cars with electric motors to convert them to hybrids.
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Repairing a structure is typically less expensive than retrofitting it by adding new components, which in turn is cheaper than building a new structure.
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The Massachusetts senator noted that her push to transition to clean energy would require retrofitting buildings, re-engineering the electrical grid and adapting manufacturing.
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They would be reimbursed for 50 percent of eligible expenses, such as retrofitting a home, hiring an aide and leasing or buying specialty equipment.
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"We consider it out of the question to carry out hardware retrofitting," Matthias Müller, the chief executive of Volkswagen, said during a news conference.
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By retrofitting existing facilities and noncombat vehicles, and making new ones zero emissions, the Department of Defense will lead the way in clean energy.
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Marrakech, Morocco (CNN)Morocco has started retrofitting 600 of its mosques with renewable energy, switching to efficient LED lighting, photovoltaic electricity, and solar water heating.
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Everything happening with macOS and the computers running it seems to be a retrofitting or adaptation of Apple's leading-edge stuff on iPhones and iPads.
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No question, retrofitting millions of public bathrooms across the country to make them private may seem like too monumental a thing to ask or expect.
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The two freeway bridges, the Fremont and the Marquam, both remain standing—proof that the retrofitting on the older Marquam was no waste of money.
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Some of that money became a used Ford E-250, a bulky, white cargo van which they spent the summer retrofitting for full-time living.
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Carmakers want customers to buy new cars with cleaner engines, while environmentalists and consumer groups argue that retrofitting older vehicles may be more cost-effective.
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"In California and Paris, Tony Stark is retrofitting two of his father's Stark Industries sites into new hubs for training and innovation," reads Disney's blog.
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Retrofitting existing regulatory frameworks onto digital constructs will not end well for policymakers, public safety officials or the app users this ordinance seeks to protect.
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Additionally, the city undertook the creation of the app in concert with other earthquake preparedness measures, such as the retrofitting of buildings, pipes, and more.
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Back in Nagano, the monks have started retrofitting an ancient storage house called the kyoso (ph), the building right next door to the main temple.
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Retrofitting old kilns to improve thermal efficiency can lower the industry's energy needs by two-fifths, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project, a research body.
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To do that, the framework emphasizes relying on renewable energy, upgrading the country's power grid, and retrofitting the country's infrastructure with more climate-friendly technology.
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Dawood Farahi, Kean's president, said that annual maintenance was estimated at $30,000 to $40,000, and retrofitting the buildings for student use would cost about $300,000.
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Such buildings can undergo seismic retrofitting, but the process is expensive and I suspect that most buildings in Italy have not undergone such a procedure.
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Less than 2% of the power plants for which the retrofitting rules apply were currently complying with the norms, according to end-October CEA data.
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The only problem with the retrofitting in Los Angeles, say seismologists, is the expensive process is happening too slowly, expected to be complete in 2022.
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Retrofitting facilities with carbon capture technology, like those projects in Decatur and Houston, creates near-term construction jobs in communities where employment is sorely needed.
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At the same time, individuals are doing important work to shape our future: Take the community of DIY mechanics retrofitting old cars with electric motors.
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In at least eight cases, hospital officials publicly cited expensive, often multimillion dollar seismic retrofitting costs as a significant factor in the decision to close.
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The airline is in the process of retrofitting the interiors of the 767 fleet, and, unlike United, is not yet planning to retire the 757.
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Instead, most of them rely on a few popular models with easy-to-hack computer and infotainment systems that don't require a lot of retrofitting.
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Retrofitting an old building with central air is expensive and complicated, so most New York buildings don't go to the trouble of making that renovation.
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The startup focuses on retrofitting, but it's also working with some developers to architect the space around the ceiling systems, which could be cheaper overall.
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How many drivers are going to end up retrofitting their new Model 3s with bad substitute HUDs, like Navdy, to make up for Tesla's HUD disposal.
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While ISIS has sometimes been retrofitting hobby drones with explosives, they've also been building drones from scratch using metal pipes, wooden propellors, and repurposed small engines.
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Related story: Hyperloop may be the future of transit Think about retrofitting HOV lanes on highways with conductive surfaces so maglev vehicles could hover over them.
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The scandal shook up Volkswagen's leadership, with the company spending billions to settle government and private claims related to it, including retrofitting or buying back vehicles.
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Fortescue is retrofitting 100 huge mining trucks with autonomous haulage systems (AHS) at its remote Chichester hub, aiming to more than double its self-driving fleet.
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The company is committed to retrofitting 4,400 branches as well as 60 corporate sites with LED lights, according to Michael Norton, managing director of real estate.
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Ray awakes from his retrofitting with amnesia, but one memory comes back: He saw his wife executed while her murderer played "Psycho Killer" in the background.
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The Seismic Retrofitting Project, an initiative of the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute, is studying traditional practices for stabilizing structures in areas prone to earthquakes.
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Retrofitting older apartments with central air means installing a condenser outside the home, a fan-and-coil system inside and ducts to distribute the cooled air.
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An emerging trend across all industries has been the retrofitting of analog physical equipment with 'smart' technologies in order to facilitate transitions into the modern era.
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This is an example of an a la carte retrofitting — notice how the bed and drawer modules don't take up the full footage of the ceiling.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company will "most likely" start retrofitting its new, more powerful processing chip into older vehicles near the end of the year.
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Her Buffalo Erie Niagara Land Improvement Corporation (BENLIC) is taking over vacant parcels of land and building or retrofitting to make smaller and more energy-efficient homes.
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Maersk, the world's biggest container line, aims to be carbon neutral by 270, and has spent $2000 billion over the last four years retrofitting around 210 vessels.
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It's a big step forward, but the execution raises one big question: how long will Samsung and Oculus keep retrofitting the Gear VR instead of redesigning it?
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"We may have to look at the design of our schools going forward and retrofitting the schools," Patrick stated while urging a rethinking of school safety protocols.
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Retrofitting delivers higher margins and is considered less risky than building new, because the complexity of some vehicle orders can lead to delays, rail industry executives say.
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China also acquired its first aircraft carrier by retrofitting an incomplete former-Soviet carrier, and had its first successful carrier-based fighter (J-15) landing in 2012.
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Easing the regulatory burden on retrofitting older refineries and building new refineries would help make the U.S. a more efficient consumer of the crude oil it produces.
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The government was also looking to facilitate loans to power producers through state-run financial institutions to fund one-time costs related to retrofitting plants, Bhalla said.
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With earthquakes, that is the case because those populations are most likely to inhabit the buildings and structures that are in the most dire need of retrofitting.
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At a time when the regulatory environment surrounding medicines is continually in flux, building and retrofitting biopharmaceutical manufacturing and research facilities must be flawlessly executed on schedule.
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"The beauty of this place lies in retrofitting something that already exists," said Naoko, inside the cozy cafe, which brims with vintage objects and local craft work.
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"Every time a maintenance crew opens a sewer cover, fixes or installs a pipe, whether new or retrofitting, you're thinking how to enhance its resilience," Miller said.
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Older equipment, on the other hand, likely requires retrofitting of sensors, connectivity and simple compute endpoints in order to generate any kind of meaningful data at all.
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While New York City recently passed a law requiring its biggest skyscrapers to become more energy efficient, the new law could mean retrofitting thousands of buildings statewide.
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Retrofitting American political journalism to defend it against populists—to which, mind, the left has historically been as susceptible as the right—calls for more modest change.
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Zippin sees small stores and specialty retailers embracing the tech first because they require less retrofitting and their smaller inventories are easier for the technology to manage.
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Any bigger, large-scale change, such as retrofitting a building to be more energy efficient, can take years and requires the approval of multiple parties, says Legrand.
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In the red line, (22.6), airlines take this efficiency strategy even further by aggressively retrofitting their existing planes rather than waiting for them to retire in due course.
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There are limits to retrofitting this—especially as the state continues to grow, building further into the wildlands, where more and more people demand more and more power.
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Photos by Takumi OtaSeismic retrofitting is a major endeavor that requires bracing and bolting an older building to its foundation so it doesn't shake apart in an earthquake.
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Gillett said there were technologies available that could transform an old, "dumb" car into a smart car by retrofitting devices that offer similar functions as a smart car.
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The manatee population benefited from measures over the years such as retrofitting water control devices, to reduce the likelihood of water gates accidentally closing on — and killing — manatees.
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To capture the scale of the crisis, Danish photographer Rasmus Degnbol built a custom drone, retrofitting it with a camera to snap aerial views of the mass migration.
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Given the dependence on coal in many emerging Asian economies, the report also discussed ways to reduce emissions from ongoing production, including retrofitting plants with carbon capture technology.
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" He added: "From a technical standpoint, a retrofitting requirement would have required structural improvements to many older buses, which would have been difficult and in some cases impossible.
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Top German politicians say the emissions cheating scandal damaged the global reputation of the German car industry, and say consumers should not bear the cost of retrofitting cars.
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The energy ministry has told state-run utilities to put retrofitting plans on hold, added an industry source familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named.
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The A24 trio decided the only way to seize the moment was to forget about retrofitting a company and build a nimble new one from the ground up.
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Retrofitting a shrimp boat with plate freezers is an expensive investment, but can yield shrimp with excellent flavor and texture that's well worth the extra cost to consumers.
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Among the topics discussed: insulating and retrofitting homes; moving to solar and wind energy; planting millions of trees; eating less meat; and saving British wildlife like the hedgehog.
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Other ideas include cutting taxes on Germany's army of low-paid workers or its corporations, or introducing incentives for climate-friendly policies like retrofitting buildings and clean fuel.
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These advancements could mean that Amazon is poised to license its Go technology to other stores, but it still has one major hurdle to overcome — retrofitting existing stores.
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If you already have a home security kit installed, and don't want to ditch it completely, Ring's new retrofitting alarm kit will supposedly allow you to do that.
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The government will also make 255 million pounds, or $332 million, available for local governments to take short-term action, such as retrofitting buses, to reduce air pollution.
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Mr. Pyle argued that Green New Deal boosters are not being realistic about the environmental consequences of constructing high-speed rail, manufacturing zero-emission vehicles or retrofitting buildings.
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The government has been pushing carmakers to shoulder more of the burden of retrofitting cars, though Germany's auto giants have been reluctant to take on more costs than necessary.
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It needs to get in on the ground level because negotiating partnerships with every company in the world, in addition to retrofitting gadgets, isn't necessarily a sustainable path forward.
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Popple pulled some top talent from Tesla and, crucially, adopted Tesla's strategy of focusing exclusively on EVs, designing them from the ground up rather than retrofitting existing vehicle designs.
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He would charge the Energy Department with making sure that both new and existing commercial structures, as well as high-income home owners, meet his administration's energy retrofitting goals.
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In European and Asian cities with dense public-transport networks this decentralisation is easier to cope with, but retrofitting the necessary infrastructure onto American cities would be too expensive.
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Retrofitting an entire building or lot with sensors probably won't be cheap, and it will definitely stir up new headaches for the people who own and operate these properties.
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One of the grants funded by the bill is earmarked for natural disaster preparedness: everything from retrofitting old buildings to prevent serious damage from storms to emergency disaster response.
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In the meantime, plaintiffs' attorneys said the company is only retrofitting guns that the owner can prove fired without the trigger being pulled — a small fraction of the total.
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"We are going to be constantly building out medical facilities and creating them where they've never existed before and retrofitting facilities that have nothing to do with health care."
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There's preliminary evidence that retrofitting school buses to pollute less improves kids' test scores, and that's hardly surprising — the effects of air pollution on brain development are well established.
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As anyone who watched, say, the Pirates of the Caribbean films can attest, retrofitting a largely terrific standalone film into an ongoing saga is ridiculously difficult to pull off.
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Retrofitting an American Airlines 7773-200 means stripping out 40 main cabin economy seats and replacing them with 24 premium economy seats, which are wider and feature more legroom.
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The retrofitting system Amazon has thought up can function without consuming computing or storage resources from Amazon Web Services, Amazon's market-leading public cloud, two of the people said.
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And they brought their idea — a system for retrofitting cars with self-driving tech — to Y Combinator, an incubator known for software companies like Airbnb and Dropbox, not hardware.
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Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, is taking some meaningful steps, including charging the oldest and most polluting cars to enter the city's center and retrofitting buses with filters.
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Though the DEA awarded a contract to purchase the aircraft at a cost $3 million more than it estimated, most of the misused funds were used in retrofitting the aircraft.
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The company is also currently retrofitting existing models on a case-by-case basis, and owners affected by the interference problem need to contact LG to get the process rolling.
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So if someone at Lucasfilm snapped their fingers, and suddenly all of my other books were canon, and there would be no real retrofitting that would have to go in.
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The mayor addressed the costly price of retrofitting old buildings in his letter to Honolulu City Council Chairman Ron Menor, who must still introduce the bill to the City Council.
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Delegates in Edmonton will go over topics ranging from the risk of climate change for coastal communities to the retrofitting of buildings, in order to remedy the gap in knowledge.
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To push the transition forward, the proposal would create 20 million "good paying, union jobs" in several fields, including steel and auto manufacturing, construction, energy efficiency retrofitting and sustainable agriculture.
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It's estimated that about 85033 percent of the small plane fleet could safely switch to unleaded gasoline immediately, with no retrofitting needed, as long as it does not contain ethanol.
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Evans, an engineer, said she was attracted by Zoox's focus on urban services and its approach to building a vehicle rather than retrofitting cars made for drivers into driverless vehicles.
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National building standards for new and existing buildings would immediately create local construction jobs for retrofitting existing buildings and create demand for more efficient and green building products and services.
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The designs might increase the cost of a garage by 10 to 15 percent, he said, but the investment would pay off down the road with an easier retrofitting project.
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But most of the buildings that are standing now will still exist in 2050, so retrofitting existing homes and offices to use less energy needs to be a major policy priority.
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And in terms of retrofitting and the price of the final product, a container-based building is about 10 percent less expensive than traditional construction and up to 50 percent faster.
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"We're talking about multibillion dollars of [retrofitting] some abandoned factories that we had to go through during the financial meltdown in '07, '08 and '09," the former Home Depot CEO said.
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Advocates of the plan say that the retrofitting of skyscrapers — which will likely need better heating, cooling, lighting, and window systems — will bring thousands of jobs to architects, engineers, and builders.
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The fees will go toward emissions-reducing projects on the UCLA campus, such as energy retrofitting or solar panels—although the energy savings are unlikely to fully offset flights' carbon emissions.
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As well as retrofitting and rebuilding many schools in quake-prone areas, China is educating children about the risks and hazards relating to quakes and what to do in a disaster.
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Units likely to miss targets - here Less than 2% of the power plants for which the retrofitting rules apply were currently complying with the norms, according to end-October CEA data.
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Indeed, one analysis found that, had the province simply continued with retrofitting coal plants, it could have achieved similar environmental benefits at one-tenth the cost of the green energy programs.
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To Mr. Shoupe, the retrofitting is a small step on the daunting path toward what environmentalists call a "just transition" — economic growth that does not harm people's health or the land.
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The way forward is to implement specific Green New Deal policy ideas in a few states to demonstrate the policy wisdom of, say, retrofitting buildings or a greater thrust for renewables.
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Unfortunately, the future upgrades I'm talking about very likely don't include retrofitting the building to have a full grass field—the cost of which seems like it will ultimately prove prohibitive.
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Though GM recently acquired Cruise and now has the technical capabilities to do so, it's unlikely the company will consider retrofitting older vehicles with fully autonomous technology when the time comes.
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But the relative difficulty of preparing and carrying out such attacks, including finding makeshift armor and retrofitting vehicles with it and building bombs, still makes them a selective weapon of choice.
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"Churches are more difficult to defend," he said, because of their structures and, some say, because retrofitting them to better withstand earthquakes could be limited by laws protecting their artistic value.
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So a considerable amount stayed the same for the first eight episodes — it was a process of retrofitting some stories into earlier episodes, which obviously hadn't been finished or aired yet.
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I'm stacking the deck here, given that it was based on a British model that could well have been one of the reasons there was no rule on retrofitting apartment sprinklers.
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BMW and a number of other German automakers also lost value after representatives of auto companies failed to reach a compromise with the German government on the retrofitting of diesel vehicles.
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His proposals include doubling spending for public transportation, creating a national building retrofitting program over two decades and launching a Clean Water for All program to upgrade drinking, storm and wastewater infrastructure.
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Flexport showed how ripe the freight industry is for disruption, Shone is retrofitting old cargo ships with its proprietary technology that allows them to deliver shipping containers autonomously and by remote control.
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Although he has a long wait ahead of him, he's already making preparations for the car; he called an electrician on Monday to talk about retrofitting his house for a fast charger.
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Waymo and Jaguar Land Rover's engineers will work in tandem to build these cars to be self-driving from the start, rather than retrofitting them after they come off the assembly line.
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Waymo and Jaguar Land Rover's engineers are working in tandem to build these cars to be self-driving from the start, rather than retrofitting them after they come off the assembly line.
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Rather than retrofitting an existing race car chassis for use with driverless systems, the company gave its designers and engineers a blank slate and told them to build the ultimate autonomous vehicle.
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Along with requirements for new cars, the HOT CARS Act would direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to study options for retrofitting older vehicles with a visual and auditory alert system.
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Costly retrofitting may be the only way to improve sprawling slums in megacities, but medium-sized cities still have the chance to incorporate low-cost housing into their urban design, said Fay.
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To develop its technology, Nauto is retrofitting windshields of commercial trucks from North America to Europe and Japan with dual cameras: one aimed at the road and the other at the driver.
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Qantas is in the process of retrofitting its A380s with new interiors, but this was one of the older cabins — it's still comfortable, though, with a 10-abreast 3-4-3 configuration.
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Europe will likely be a large growth market despite the outsized costs of retrofitting older buildings with new cooling systems, said Nicholas Heymann, co-group head global industrial infrastructure at William Blair.
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Retrofitting them to comply with tougher pollution controls adds to the financial burden of keeping them in service though in many cases is not the major reason why they struggle to compete.
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The work of retrofitting New York's subways for a changing climate is ongoing, and the MTA tells The Verge there will be more "flood tests" like the one that took place yesterday.
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As chairman of the watchmaker's board of directors, Mr. Bucherer is involved in all its major decisions, such as buying and retrofitting the factory here in Lengnau, where Gucci once produced watches.
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So retrofitting is not something that is possible only for the privileged—but unfortunately it is up to building owners and developers to get it done, which puts renters at a disadvantage.
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But still, that happy, bulbous-nosed serenity – I end up retrofitting it in my mind, as if somehow this talking-style will be taken on to the court and turned into godlike tennis.
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The city's climate-friendly efforts includes expanding its public transport system and cycle paths, retrofitting buildings with poor energy efficiency, investing in research for cleaner technologies and boosting the use of electric vehicles.
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Apparently the biggest decision when one wants to build a techno-utopia is where to put it, so Sidewalk Labs is supposedly debating between retrofitting an existing city or building one from scratch.
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When Gunderson began taking low-cost measures by retrofitting light fixtures in six buildings on two of its campuses in 22019, the system anticipated an energy cost savings of approximately $245,000 per year.
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But regimes around the world, including those in Russia and Iran, have increasingly been retrofitting traditional private and decentralized networks with cooperation agreements, technical implants, or a combination to give officials more influence.
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Yet the very need to pour millions of dollars into retrofitting this gas-fired plant on the picturesque shore of the Pacific Ocean shows just how much work has yet to be done.
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Retrofitting all prisons and jails across the country would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, according to an estimate by Paul Bishop, an ADA consultant with the Seattle law firm Endelman and Associates.
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George Hotz is a famed hacker turned software engineer who recently made waves for retrofitting an Acura with homemade software that enabled the otherwise standard vehicle to semi-autonomously drive down a highway.
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As Basav Sen, climate expert at the Institute for Policy Studies, points out, retrofitting projects are "shovel ready" because they require a low capital investment (as opposed to, say, building a new airport).
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We are witnessing the extraordinary modernization of Pennsylvania's power generation sector — nearly $13 billion will be invested in the construction or retrofitting of clean, efficient combined-cycle natural gas power plants by 2021.
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Decarbonizing buildings will involve implementing zero-carbon standards for all new buildings and funding the wholesale retrofitting of existing buildings, millions of which use fossil fuels like natural gas for heating and cooling.
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Emerging trends in retrofitting existing low-income housing for energy efficiency, novel designs for new low-income energy efficient housing, and innovations in financing, collaboration, and policy are starting to turn that picture around.
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What's next: Lawmakers in several states are considering tax credits to help caregivers either hire professional help or defray certain costs — for example, retrofitting a home to accommodate a disability, Kaiser Health News reports.
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Retrofitting diesel cars would cost at least 5,000 euro ($13,935) per vehicle for cars with Euro-5 engines, and the environmental benefits would only become effective in three to four years, some members said.
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"We may have to look at the design of our schools moving forward and retrofitting schools that are already built," Patrick, a staunch opponent of new gun control measures, said at a news conference.
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Those states and cities would have to pursue ambitious new policies, like retrofitting hundreds of buildings to make them more energy efficient and plugging methane emissions from landfills, to get closer to the target.
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A "shared understanding" has emerged that "retrofitting is not that cost-worthy," said Seok Kwang-hoon, a member of the government's power supply plan working group and an adviser at civic group Green Korea.
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At the same time it was blowing cash on buybacks, American also began to borrow heavily to finance the purchase of new planes and the retrofitting of old planes to pack in more seats.
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The United States Postal Service is replacing or retrofitting mailboxes in much of the northeast to eliminate the pull-down handle in favor of a slender mail slot with a singular goal: foiling thieves.
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Despite these advancements, Amazon isn't guaranteed to dominate as an autonomous checkout technology provider:It may have trouble getting merchants to use its tech because of its lack of retrofitting experience and concerns about competition.
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The bottom line: Kann cites analyses showing that retrofitting homes to harden against disasters is a slam-dunk from a cost-benefit standpoint, and that utility investments in resilient equipment will yield ratepayer savings.
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It will mean either retiring existing coal plants and replacing them with cleaner sources (as the United States is currently doing) or retrofitting the plants with carbon capture technology and burying their emissions underground.
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In addition to the diesel and petrol ban, the proposal will include a £255 million fund to help local councils reduce emissions through measures such as retrofitting buses, reprogramming traffic lights, and changing road layouts.
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The government has been pushing carmakers to shoulder more of the burden of retrofitting cars with insufficient exhaust filtering systems following scandals involving schemes to conceal the true levels of polluting emissions from diesel cars.
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Striking a populist note, she placed herself firmly on the side of consumers when it came to the cost of expensive retrofitting of vehicles that might be needed in cities where excess pollution is substantial.
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CEA has prepared a phase-in plan for implementing new environmental norms to ensure minimum disruption while plants are shut down for retrofitting, Singh told the upper house of India's parliament in a written reply.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said on Wednesday that his plan to battle air pollution in cities by retrofitting older diesel vehicles would not require taxpayer funds or money from the car owners.
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The U.S.P.S. has also begun the painstaking process of replacing or retrofitting every blue mailbox in the city and some surrounding suburbs—roughly seven thousand boxes in all—with features designed to thwart fishing attempts.
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"There's a huge opportunity for us as a nation" if stimulus cash can also advance green aims and build next-generation skills and employment in areas like installing renewable energy or retrofitting buildings, she said.
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A few years ago, The Verge traveled to Southern California to talk to a man named David Benardo, whose company, Zelectric Motors, was refurbishing old Volkswagen Beetles and Microbuses and retrofitting them with electric powertrains.
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In the letter, the authors proposed low emission zones, free public transport to reduce car use, extra incentives for electric cars and technical retrofitting for existing vehicles as long as this is effective and economically feasible.
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Cruise, which began creating autopilot features but shifted to a focus on retrofitting cars with fully autonomous "kits," had raised just $18.8 million from Spark Capital, Maven Ventures, Y Combinator and a gamut of small investors.
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At its new southeast Michigan facility, for which it is yet to identify a location, the company aims to hire engineers, operations experts, fleet coordinators and other professionals for retrofitting vehicles with its self-driving technology.
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American Airlines's new 737 MAX planes have enough space to allow one bag aloft per passenger, and the carrier is in the midst of retrofitting its older 737s, about 250 of them, with the larger bins.
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That work is happening, if at a pace slower than some might have wanted: A third of the buildings have been fixed, half are mid-repair, and almost all the rest have retrofitting plans in place.
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MagniX and Harbour Air said they will now begin the certification and approval process for both the engine and the retrofitting of aircraft and hope to be operating an all-electric commercial fleet within two years.
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And they are not only retrofitting apartments in existing small- and medium-size buildings but also working with developers to add co-living to new large-scale projects — or even planning their own buildings from scratch.
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Sign up here for more analysis of US politics for global readers From Iran to North Korea to trans-Atlantic relations, this White House has a record of retrofitting policy to match Trump's political bottom line.
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If a causal link with climate change can be proved, the proceeds from such lawsuits could pay for costly adaptation methods such as retrofitting buildings, re-housing communities and shifting the energy sector toward renewables, he said.
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It is designed to work alongside humans, with minimal changes to a facility, negating the need for prohibitively expensive retrofitting or investing in brand new robot-enabled buildings, which is the route that Amazon has gone down.
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The company later raised more money with a business model shift focused on retrofitting existing fleets of commercial vehicles, and last year began testing its own self-driving pick-up and drop-off service in Frisco, Texas.
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By the movie's end, it's hard to escape the sense that while the plant's on-the-ground staff appears highly competent and committed to retrofitting the plant for as long as required, Indian Point is still doomed.
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That means both retrofitting a whole lot of AC units (the cost of which isn't yet clear, since the technology isn't finalized yet), and building out an infrastructure to ferry that fuel around for use in industry.
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BERLIN, Sept 26 (Reuters) - German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said on Wednesday that his plan to battle air pollution in cities by retrofitting older diesel vehicles would neither use taxpayer money nor money from the car owners.
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Many of the 50,000 buildings that are covered by it are owned by co-op boards who will have to finance the retrofitting themselves, or by owners who will simply pass the costs on to their tenants.
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This could be done by keeping migration routes free of development, building or retrofitting highway underpasses or overpasses for wildlife passage and seeing that seasonal habitat is managed in a way to minimize stress on wildlife populations.
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Cities could increase their chances of getting money by reducing their exposure to disasters, perhaps by retrofitting their buildings, implementing aggressive building codes and zoning restrictions, and helping residents leave the most vulnerable neighborhoods, Ms. Tregoning said.
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A columnist for The Wall Street Journal, for example, recently pointed to the $400 billion estimated cost of retrofitting American buildings without mentioning the $1.4 trillion net value (retrofit costs minus saved energy costs) of doing so.
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The company said its energy efficiency solutions subsidiary Energy Services Co signed a memorandum of understanding with Signify, formerly known as Philips Lighting, to conduct efficiency studies and retrofitting across Saudi Arabia, with a focus on LED lighting.
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In addition, the improvements needed to reach cost-effective energy savings vary widely depending on the age and condition of the buildings, so building or retrofitting for energy efficiency involves case-by-case consultation with building energy specialists.
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A federal tax credit for aging in place has been proposed, and many cities are supporting tax credits for retrofitting homes and changing building codes to improve accessibility, both means to increase the amount of affordable, attainable housing.
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Retrofitting every building in the country, building thousands of wind turbines with American-made steel, installing millions of solar panels, rebuilding our mass-transit systems, creating a nationwide high-speed rail network, the list goes on and on.
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"With the growing demand for low sulfur distillate fuels, Sinanju will be retrofitting more than half of our fleet of 13 bunker tankers," said Desmond Chong, general manager of Singapore's Sinanju Tankers Holdings in a statement on Friday.
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A typical taproom makes 23-gallon batches multiple times a day, employing men and women to haul fully loaded, 2000-pound kegs across a factory floor, and retrofitting spaces and installing brewery equipment requires skilled craftsmen and laborers.
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The credit essentially helps subsidize costs — sometimes in the tens of thousands for private or international adoptions — for agency and attorney fees, travel, and post-adoption services, such as retrofitting a home for a child with special needs.
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GM estimated it would cost about $750 million, a price that included retrofitting a portion of the engine plant, purchasing materials to make the ventilators and paying the 1,000 workers needed to scale up production, the source said.
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They then pressed local utility commissions to stop utilities from passing the costs of pricey new pollution controls on to ratepayers, and made the case that gas and solar power would be cheaper than retrofitting existing coal plants.
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Colin Murphy, an analyst at clean energy research nonprofit NextGen Policy Center, said that in recent years California has invested billions in solar energy, expanding public transit, funding greenhouse gas reductions, and retrofitting buildings to be more energy efficient.
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Our software will run on a standard GPU when we integrate with level 4 or 5 vehicles, but then we work with aftermarket, retrofitting applications that don't have as much power available, but the models still work with that.
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It would make so much more sense to spend money retrofitting our economy to reduce the risk of disastrous climate change rather than spending money to deal with the enormous economic and human costs of coping with its consequences.
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Musk thinks that his company's retrofitting of the materials and the actual tunneling process will be able to speed up normal tunneling speed by 15 times; currently, it takes about a year to tunnel a mile, according to Musk.
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There is a clear and compelling reason why the FBI needs a new headquarters: the current one is seriously outdated, has insufficient space to accommodate the bureau's needs, and no amount of retrofitting and updating will address those shortcomings.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will "most likely" begin upgrading older electric vehicles with its new custom chip later this year — a lofty task that will involve retrofitting hundreds of thousands of Model S, X and 3s.
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While the plane features Delta&aposs full-fledged Delta One business class, it&aposs one of the older products in Delta&aposs fleet — the airline is actually in the process of slowly retrofitting the planes with brand new interiors.
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Todd Semonite, the head of the US Army Corps of Engineers, said Friday that retrofitting hotels or dormitories into temporary hospitals to alleviate the burden on civilian hospitals caused by the virus would hopefully take three or four weeks.
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The real challenge, he said, would be retrofitting older buildings to meet the requirements in the recent City Council legislation; Mr. Chambers had estimated that the cumulative cost to building owners to make necessary upgrades would exceed $4 billion.
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Whether it's retrofitting new urban infrastructure, reimagining inter-generational housing, constructing workforce development plans that take lifelong learning seriously, or looking at how to become a hotbed for new ideas and startups, many cities are embracing age-inclusive strategies.
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In addition, the older-version jets, 737 Next Generation, now require inspection for cracks where wings attach to the plane, and potential retrofitting of all planes' engine parts due to prior design flaws, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
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Part of Blue Origin's testing process will include retrofitting and upgrading Test Stand 4670 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, allowing the company to test a BE-3 engine one side and a BE-4 engine on the other.
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You might have your own fave, but I reckon "POISON" is the best of them all, retrofitting Vann's monotone delivery with haunting organs, a steamy bass tone, and a sinewy guitar solo that recalls the psychedelic soul of Isaac Hayes.
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A few hours later, after it was revealed she had come down with pneumonia -- a common illness now being treated with antibiotics and a few days' rest -- they got back to work, retrofitting baseless and lurid suggestions about her health.
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Nauto, a Palo Alto company focused on retrofitting existing vehicle fleets with networked safety camera-equipped devices, has raised $159 million in a Series B round led by SoftBank (which has been quite spendy lately) and Reid Hoffman at Greylock.
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A senior partner at the firm that designed the building called the accessibility problem a "small wrinkle in an incredibly successful project," and said the firm has begun brainstorming ways to address the issues, which may include retrofitting the library.
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Back in April, geohot announced plans to bring his technologies to market through a retrofitting kit that would turn standard vehicles into self-drivers, with a sub-$1,000 price tag and a set of instructions that even non-mechanics can follow.
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Or it could mean "regreening," as Ellen Dunham-Jones, the director of the urban design program at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the co-author of "Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs," has found across the country.
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Watching the crisis worsen in the valley, he was struck by how few had the means to survive the drought, and in 2015 he resolved to start a water-delivery service, retrofitting his truck to carry two 750-gallon tanks.
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For example, the Berlin government, which is run by the center-left Social Democrats, is pushing the idea of retrofitting public buildings with gender-neutral bathrooms, including gender-neutral urinals — a plan that has attracted no small amount of public derision.
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Although its two volumes of short stories and four novellas were originally published separately, Bassani revised these disparate works over the years, retrofitting them into one "novel," with a presiding narrator whom he identifies in a concluding essay as himself.
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And because many owners think that selling their units collectively is a better financial bet than investing in a conservation or retrofitting plan, the buildings have largely fallen into disrepair because no one wants to pay for short-term upkeep.
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Jaguar will also offer the conversion service to current E-Type owners, so the layout of the battery and motor should ensure the car's handling dynamics are familiar to those willing to hand over such a cherished possession for retrofitting.
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As part of her 100% Clean Energy for America plan, Elizabeth has called for retrofitting 4 percent of our existing building stock each year until the job is done, and she will prioritize public housing units to lower energy costs.
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Along with Kaplan, the architect James Sanders proposed a retrofitting of Liberty Plaza Park (now Zuccotti Park, the site of the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011) that aimed to flush financial data out of the skyscrapers and onto the streets.
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Likewise, Starsky says its focus on building small robots that can control the existing control mechanisms of a truck physically, instead of on overhauling the truck with modified control systems, actually means more control functionality is possible – and retrofitting existing vehicles is easier.
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Another section of the document — on safety and beneficence of artificial general intelligence — also warns that as AI systems become more capable "unanticipated or unintended behavior becomes increasingly dangerous," while retrofitting safety into any more generally capable, future AI systems may be difficult.
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He explained that retrofitting the bridge with a steel support structure would have cost "a little less than rebuilding" but would have been more expensive in the long run, because there would have been "significant maintenance needs and costs" after about 15 years.
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As it pursues retrofitting contracts, Bombardier is eying a possible plan by the largest U.S. rapid transit system to modernize around 1,000 subway cars made by the company in the late 1990s and early 2000s, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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One purported way companies are making space for themselves in the market is by purchasing paper mills and retrofitting them to include processing abilities — giving these companies the ability to turn the recycled mixed paper into pulp, and therefore bypassing China's restrictions.
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"50 Martin Place is a landmark example of how retrofitting can transform tired old offices into highly-connected, high-performance workplaces without compromising character, charm or contemporary standards of sustainability," Ken Morrison, Property Council of Australia's Chief Executive, said in a statement.
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In Zimmerman Playground, in the Allerton neighborhood of the Bronx, a wiry little boy posed like Rocky under jets that were set to a timer, a water conservation device that the city's parks department has been retrofitting many showers with since 2012.
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It was still attached, and ultimately didn't interfere with my flight at all, but it definitely showed that these seats are due for some TLC — Delta is currently in the process of slowly retrofitting its 767 fleet with new interiors, including new seats.
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Tesla has sought to do more in AI. Musk revealed that Tesla was working on a custom AI chip in 2017, and last month he said the automaker would "most likely" start retrofitting older vehicles with its chips by the end of 2019.
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Curcio says Ayax is already retrofitting its car-sharing fleet of Prius C hybrids in Uruguay with electronics that let them emit the dynamic sound, and that Toyota has okayed spreading the pilot to similar fleets in Brazil and Argentina later this month.
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What was entered as official legislative language on Capitol Hill declares the government should take a stronger position on everything from cutting carbon emissions to giving every American a job to working with family farmers to retrofitting every building in the country.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A panel of experts said Thursday that San Francisco's building codes were inadequate to deal with the aftermath of a large earthquake and called for both the inspection and retrofitting of existing tall buildings and stronger regulations for new ones.
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Under a partnership established six months ago, engineers from Waymo and Fiat Chrysler collaborated in Michigan to build these hybrid-powered vans with the right tools for the job incorporated from the start, rather than retrofitting them after they came off the assembly line.
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Some essential ways for developing countries to adapt to climate stresses include introducing early warning systems, building dykes and other barriers to protect farms from heavy rains, retrofitting houses to better withstand winds, and helping communities find more diverse sources of income, Singh said.
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He dedicated one summer to repairing and retrofitting his second iteration of the Ultimate Taxi, an $11,000 1981 Checker cab now complete with lasers, projections, and his latest addition: A 360-degree camera, which allows families and friends to relive their experiences in virtual reality.
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Other initiatives include the expansion of Delhi's metro, measures to maintain roads better (the dust kicked up from these accounts for a big proportion of breathable particulates), restrictions on lorries entering the city, and plans to enforce the replacement or retrofitting of older vehicles.
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Within the last decade, however, a cadre of highly skilled, mostly Middle Eastern designers, many of them autodidacts retrofitting Roman-based digital font authoring tools, are creating a fully typographic Arabic: one that merges the dizzying eclecticism of original writing systems with contemporary font production.
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But finally San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Monica, to name the main players, have all enacted measures requiring the retrofitting — that's the term of art, and if people living in Oklahoma or Kansas don't know it now, they will soon enough — of buildings.
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These shifting specifications added greatly to time and cost, obliterating the justification that had led politicians to choose to build a new bridge in the first place: that it would cost about the same amount as retrofitting the old span to be safer in earthquakes.
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So to meet the new fire standards in California, I heard it adds $5000 to $10,000 to the cost of a house, and people say, "We don't want to spend that amount of money," but just like earthquake retrofitting, it's an increasingly sensible investment.
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Our actions must be to scale, so while we undertake individual steps in our lives, like retrofitting light bulbs, we must realize that real progress comes from voting, running for office, marching in protest, writing letters, and uncomfortable but respectful conversations with fathers-in-law.
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The company will be retrofitting some of its factories and expects to ramp up production to 1.5 million masks weekly, and the consortium as a whole is expected to ramp up production from 5 million to 6 million masks weekly using HanesBrands' design and patterns.
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So for those of us that prefer old things but still want to be able to set timers and do metric-imperial conversions without pulling out our phones, Grain Design is retrofitting these fabulous old telephones to provide Alexa access with no other hints of modernity.
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If the results from Harvard are real, and too much light at night from any and all sources does increase a woman's risk of breast cancer, then retrofitting street lighting all across America should be done in a way that does not further contribute to the problem.
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And a reshuffled chronology can masquerade as complexity—an ongoing irritation in our era of streaming television, in which puzzle-solving has become an easy way to motivate viewers to push play, by retrofitting momentum onto a story that's not really about anything, other than closure.
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Part of the reason only a small fraction of dams currently generate electricity is that retrofitting an existing dam requires communities like Logan to face a tangled web of federal permitting requirements that can stop common-sense small hydro projects from ever getting off the ground.
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While there's possibly room to do so by using the public plaza that the arena fronts onto, this would be a massively expensive undertaking, at least a couple hundred million dollars plus the lost revenue from shutting down the arena for months to do the retrofitting.
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Some experts had hoped for an initial carbon price of at least €50 ($55) per tonne, eventually rising to over €100, to spur investment in clean fuels and retrofitting buildings, and to encourage a faster shift from the coal plants that provide 29% of Germany's electricity.
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In the interview, Marakby — who left Ford for a few years to help run Uber's self-driving program — also shared some of the thinking behind the automaker's decision to create an autonomous car from the ground up instead of retrofitting or altering the design of an existing vehicle.
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So it's impossible to tell how much money the company has made from the shipments they've delivered with these trucks, and it's likely it'd be a drop in the bucket compared to how much Uber has spent and will continue to spend on developing, retrofitting and owning the trucks.
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The roster was pockmarked from the jump, and even after the front office credibly paved it over at the trade deadline, the retrofitting could not conceal how overwhelmingly dependent Texas had become on white-knuckling close contests (with an incredible 36-11 record this year in one-run games).
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Yet upon taking office, he tacked toward the center and more market-friendly policies, urged on by reformers within his party who counseled him that he had to begin retrofitting France to the realities of global competition and the long-term unsustainability of a generous social welfare system.
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Senators Booker of New Jersey, Harris of California, Gillibrand of New York and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts almost immediately backed Ocasio-Cortez's push earlier this month for the Green New Deal, a sweeping 10-year blueprint for combating climate change that involves reducing carbon emissions and retrofitting infrastructure.
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Beyond its already ambitious target of retrofitting all public housing to become more energy-efficient, the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act has another massive component: It aims to employ the people who live in the public housing units to do these 1.2 million upgrades around the country.
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Standard Cognition CEO and co-founder Jordan Fisher Standard Cognition CEO and co-founder Jordan Fisher Standard Cognition, meanwhile, focuses on retrofitting full-sized grocers and other stores, like the one in minor league baseball's The Worcester Red Sox's upcoming stadium, as well as others it hasn't announced.
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If the US Mint decides to change the composition of the penny and nickel, operators of vending machines and other coin-operated machines would have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars retrofitting their machines, while the Mint would save a sum that's only in the tens of millions of dollars.
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Indeed, it might be the fact that this monument to perfection was so wantonly cast aside by its creators in favor of a newer, not-quite-as-good version of the same thing that explains the trend in retrofitting today's latest technology to run this particular '90s-era operating system.
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Verizon offers a modem device and feature set, called Hum, that is similar to what is built into new cars and plugs into the onboard-diagnostics port of most vehicles from 1996 and later, and Mercedes-Benz dealers in Britain are retrofitting communication ability in many cars built since 2002.
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Once you're sitting at one of the tables — newly topped with leather pads in a major retrofitting that has made the dining room look like an expensive cabaret, blue velvet and all — you will hear quite a lot of talk about Mr. DiSpirito, or as they call him here, Chef Rocco.
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BMW indicated 0.2 percent lower Daimler indicated 0.2 percent lower Volkswagen indicated 0.1 percent lower German environment minister Barbara Hendricks reiterated that it is up to the automotive industry to avert a ban on diesel cars by retrofitting affected vehicles as quickly as possible, at their own cost, according to Handelsblatt.
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But Adrienne Williams-Octalien, the director of the local disaster recovery office on St. Croix, said the island did not have the upfront funds to start retrofitting the trailers, and help from FEMA had been delayed by a tussle over how much of the costs the federal agency would cover.
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More similar to the Venezuelan government's description of the incident are the drones used by terror group ISIS, which has infamously deployed off-the-shelf consumer drones strapped with explosives for years, as well as operated entire workshops dedicated to building or retrofitting unmanned vehicles capable of carrying deadly payloads in Iraq.
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We could maybe eke out another 1 percent by retrofitting smaller dams that don't have power plants, but there's an upper limit here: As for geothermal, the United States could arguably do more to harvest heat deep beneath the ground — we currently only get about 0.41 percent of our electricity from this.
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"It is very questionable, if these were safety-oriented additions, why they were not part of the required template of measures that should go into an airplane," Chao said during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, although she reportedly declined to say she would require retrofitting of all safety options on existing planes.
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His comments, made to the paper after a meeting of euro zone finance ministers in Luxembourg and published on Wednesday evening, come as Berlin's unwieldy government coalition struggles to revive its policy agenda after weeks of rowing over everything from the retrofitting of dirty diesel cars to migration and the threat of right-wing extremism.
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"Not by retrofitting something we've already designed, or looking for ways to use current applications in novel ways, but by working with the visually impaired to understand how computers can augment their capabilities, become an extra set of eyes in a way, and then developing technology with the expressed purpose of fulfilling that goal."
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And so, when we talk about our right to a clean home, when we talk about retrofitting buildings, what we're talking about is cleaning our air and cleaning our water, because when we talk about what housing as a right means, it doesn't mean that you have a right to four crumbling walls and dirty floor.
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Other resources include Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines, by the Waterfront Alliance; Ready to Respond: Strategies for Multifamily Building Resilience, by Enterprise Community Partners; Coastal Climate Resilience: Designing for Flood Risk and Coastal Climate Resilience: Retrofitting Buildings for Flood Risk, by the New York City Department of City Planning; and a glossary by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Developers are digging in on either side of the new Van der Donck Park, constructing high-rises and retrofitting old factories, adding residences to what was once strictly a business and government district, and banking on the greener look of downtown to lure people priced out of New York — or simply looking for a change of pace.
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Bostock said he's been trying to retrofit his own home to make it better able to withstand an earthquake, but he's had a hard time finding builders who specialize in seismic retrofitting, despite the perennial risk of an earthquake in BC. California, meanwhile, has introduced grants for people who want to retrofit their homes against them.
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How green touring works Some of the ways Reverb assists artists in "greening up" their tours include requesting locally grown and/or plant-based catering, decreasing the number of traveling tour crew, selling merchandise manufactured from sustainable materials, replacing single-use batteries used in in-ear monitors with rechargeable ones, and retrofitting the musician's stage lights to be energy-efficient.
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A holistic transition toward a low-carbon economy would reorient that array of market signals away from failing sectors and toward growing ones that can put millions to work right away retrofitting existing buildings to be energy efficient and building out a fleet of electric vehicles, for instance, including in the places that might otherwise be worst impacted by a fossil fuel bust and recession.
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This means massive and immediate mobilization to decarbonize every sector in an equitable way, including transitioning to clean electricity, setting strong standards for new buildings, retrofitting existing buildings to improve indoor air quality and energy efficiency, accelerating electric vehicle deployment and charging infrastructure, stopping methane leaks and eliminating the use and production of global warming super-pollutants, and efforts to expand new development while meeting pollution reduction goals.
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I asked for any manuals or procedures that dictated how and under what circumstances the fake taxis were to be used, any legal justifications acquired or written allowing for the use of these vehicles or the creation of a false medallion numbers, any invoices or bills for the cost of acquired or retrofitting a taxicab, and finally any communications between the NYPD and the Taxi and Limousine Commission concerning the use of these vehicles.
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To the Editor: There is only one workable way to eliminate the absolutely unnecessary carnage now rampant as electronically distracted drivers indulge in their selfish and slavish behavior at everyone's peril: That is changing car design, by retrofitting when necessary, so that vehicles will not allow internet use of any kind, except for navigation or mobile calls or texting (placed or received) and for those to 911 or other emergency services while the car is in motion.
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