His company, RPW Group, includes a construction unit, enabling it to renovate projects economically.
They also want the $20m they are paying to Enron's creditors, plus $140m for outstanding contract payments and as-yet-unknown costs for renovating the project's 744MW first stage and finishing the uncompleted stage two.
Nor does renovating existing projects attract the same level of funding as new schemes.
Jonathan West, board president of the Revere, said equipment had been stored on the site while the lobby and stairs were being renovated, a project set to be completed in the spring.
It remains to be seen whether bids for the third phase of the project, renovating floors 4 through 20, will come in on budget, but Mr. Schwartz and Justice Lippman said they are confident they will.
"I wouldn't hesitate now to go and talk to Shirley and say, 'This is what we'd like to do next.' " In fact, he said, he is thinking of hiring Ms. Parks for a larger project: renovating his large open-plan living room.
Her current project: renovating apartments for women and children fleeing domestic abuse.
Eric and Philippa Kempson are focusing their energy on a new project, renovating a disused hotel on the north coast.
This expertise led to her company's 2007 appointment to a UNICEF project, renovating two schools for the districts of Mulanje, Thembe and Mathimbe in southern Malawi.
The Reptile House is closed pending an interior-renovating project and its inmates have been moved to another building where they will be inaccessible to the public until their regular home reopens next October.
The study presents perspectives on the future development of decision support tools in renovation projects, including the aspect of renovating multiple buildings.
