Word: retrofits
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...cities and states may adapt existing facilities to the new circumstances: Ohio, for instance, is predicted to have 624,000 fewer children and teen-agers at the end of the century than it does today. Instead of building new centers for the proliferating elderly, local governments there might simply retrofit old empty school buildings...
...Harvard has been in the business of recycling and preserving old buildings long before the names 'retrofit' and 'recycling' became the vogue," Goyette said...
...effort has not been entirely encouraging. It is possible, explained Ferguson, to "retrofit" old steelmaking machinery with modern energy-conserving equipment, but the cost is "horrendous." Said he: "Every buck we spend on conversion for our fuel sources and for environmental control will not be available for new plants, new supplies or new jobs...