As it happens, the standard refurbishment process that occurs when a customer returns a piece of hardware didn't go exactly as planned for some devices.
They shut it a year ago for refurbishment, which hasn't happened.
The decisions taken in the early stages of the design determine the final result; however, the assessment of the environmental performance only happens at the end of the design process.This paper discusses an approach to the designing of refurbishment projects, as a way to energy-efficiently upgrade the residential stock.
When interviewed a year or two ago about the imminent refurbishment of Sydney Opera House, he looked forward to the projected completion date of 2012: "It's a long way ahead, but barring unforeseen disasters, I plan to be there when it happens".
Chris Brooks, head of communications at the OECD, says Mr Gurría had no involvement in the refurbishment, but nevertheless the cost escalation happened on his watch.The OECD wants to convert itself from a rich countries' club into a "globalisation hub", gradually absorbing more countries.
Erdoğan seems not to want to bother much with asking questions either, and the envisaged refurbishment of the constitution, which may happen later this year, could open the gates for a radical reconstruction and redefinition of Turkey by the AKP.
But many campaigners would like to see more houses retained and given over to creative refurbishments and grassroots homesteading type approaches, as may now happen in Granby.
That work is happening at a low-profile office and lab complex in Sunnyvale codenamed SG05, where a $4.6m refurbishment that began last July is still incomplete.
It is no longer adequate for L.A. Opera, a progressive company, but while a major refurbishment has been promised for a decade, there has been nothing of Dorothy Chandler's fundraising moxie to make that happen.
"He said it could only have happened in the new world, from a place that felt optimistic and was trying to make a statement about its future," Mr Johnson recalls.In his new role, Mr Utzon prepared refurbishment plans for the opera theatre to create more seats, a wider stage and an expanded orchestra pit capable of holding 104 musicians, about 35 more than it does now.
