Over the last decade, Mr. Eder has guided investments of around 3 billion euros ($4 billion) to upgrade the complex with a new power unit to cut energy costs.
The World Trade Center was a dinosaur in this sense, although the economics of the place got a lot better over time, and just two months ago the Port Authority concluded a deal to lease the towers for $3.2 billion to the developer Larry Silverstein, who then hired David Childs, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, to upgrade the complex.
The city is also spending $7.8 million to upgrade the complex with everything from new furniture and televisions to renovated restrooms.
The Obama administration has proposed a 10-year plan to upgrade the nuclear complex, but Republicans led by Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona have been pushing to lock in the commitment as much as possible and make sure enough money will be available.
In June, WWRD Holdings Ltd announced plans to upgrade its Barlaston complex.
Fermilab is planning to upgrade its accelerator complex to deliver a more powerful and intense proton-beam for neutrino experiments.
While acknowledging the increasing polarization between IAEA Member States, Amano was quick to point out areas of agreement, such as the need to upgrade the Seibersdorf laboratory complex, promote cancer therapy and safely introduce nuclear power.
Steve Lloyd from Queen Mary, University of London, who has been working on the British end section of the LCG project for the past seven years, says it is much cheaper than producing enormous supercomputers, and is more flexible and easier to upgrade than a single complex machine.
The net result is new rules that, through various complex definitional changes, will allow the utilities to upgrade their old plants without adding costly new antipollution equipment.
Russia is trying to upgrade its military-industrial complex, but it is proving to be a significant challenge (Balzer 2015).
