Sentences with phrase «than building new»

«It's a whole lot more green than building a new house,» he says.

As designer and builder Philip S. Wenz, the author of Adding to a House: Planning, Design & Construction, notes, an addition is much cheaper than building a new home and can offer a «new» home without the heartache of moving.

Water metering (at a cost of $ 1.8 million) was far cheaper than building new infrastructure to meet «business as usual» demand, because it would decrease water consumption by 30 per cent.

New hardware startups might be winners too, if you define winning as selling out to an existing massive corporation rather than building a new successful company.

This is generally cheaper than building a new computer — you can get better hardware and choose exactly the hardware you want.

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Another challenge: to convince government and industry that older buildings shouldn't just be preserved for sentimental or historic reasons, but because they are actually using less energy and are easier and cheaper to upgrade than building new.

But water efficiency projects and programs tend to be less costly than building new infrastructure to increase water supplies.

The cost of a negawatt is still considerably cheaper than building new generation.

Going forward, if the U.S. is going to dramatically reduce carbon pollution in line with the Obama administration's goals and international benchmarks, it will take much more than building new natural gas capacity to replace coal, according to a new study published in the journal Nature last week.

This is the cost - effective way to increase capacity rather than building new, grass - roots refineries.

Energy efficiency's stunning success in lowering carbon emissions should get more attention, and not just because it is cheaper than building new natural gas - fired power plants.

Energy efficiency is sometimes called the «first fuel» because cutting waste is a cheaper and faster way to meet energy demand than building new power plants.

In every single case, implementing efficiency measures costs LESS than building new generation to meet demand.

Indian energy minister Piyush Goyal recently stated that solar farms are cheaper than building new coal - fired power plants.

The Attorney General's study concluded New England should opt for more energy efficiency and demand - side management, rather than building new gas pipelines, a finding gas supporters say ignored dozens of studies to the contrary.

Digitally enabled demand response is often a more cost - effective and climate - friendly measure facilitating the integration of variable renewables than building new power plants or electricity storage.

Finishing the reactors would be more expensive than building new gas - fired power plants, but averaged over the 60 - year service life, the costs will be right in line with renewables, about $ 60 to $ 80 per MWh — except nuclear produces reliably, where wind energy is fundamentally unreliable and chaotic.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

«Expanding other airports in south - east England is more popular than building a new airport which suggests that our overseas colleagues think the UK Government should steer clear from an ambitious if expensive solution when there are better options available.»

This diverts the fanbase into a non-profit area rather than building new sales.

Liquavista said the manufacturing process is very similar to that for LCDs so existing production lines could be adapted rather than building new facilities.

Taking over an existing school is much more difficult than building a new school from the ground up.

Adding two grades, seventh and eighth, to existing K through 6 schools would be less expensive than building new middle schools.

If Gates and others with billions to devote to education continue to focus on reforming the old rather than building new, I fear their efforts will soon be forgotten after the Emperor's New Clothes adulation fades when they stop having large sums to give.

There are no solid estimates of the cost of meeting a post-60-year renovation budget, but it stands to be far less than building a new reactor, he added.

Rather than building new Ebola care centers in Liberia, we are forced to build crematoria.»

«Improving social conditions and integrating people socially can probably combat crime much more effectively than building new prisons.»

«We favour recharging beaches rather than building new sea walls,» he says.

Research has shown that investments in energy efficiency that promote conservation are cheaper and provide quicker returns than building new, cleaner power plants.

«There is a strong case for prioritising our security spending on what are likely to be the main security threats we face in the future, rather than building new weapons to fight the last war.»

He called for a focus on fixing existing roads, rather than building new ones, and urged councils to adopt long term plans for road maintenance.

Also there was the problem that Usmanov and Dein favoured Arsenal playing at Wembley, rather than building a new stadium.

Retrofitting those for export purposes isn't exactly a piece of cake, but it's faster and cheaper than building new terminals from the ground up, as B.C. has to do.

Mr Dein left AFC for many reason and when he left four years ago it was due to «irreconcilable differences» — the biggest one being his desire to see AFC move to Wembley, rather than build a new stadium.

They packed the more niche sports into a prebuilt convention center rather than build new pretty things.

CD Projekt RED did more than build a new Witcher game, they put the rest of the development world on notice — this is the raised bar for role - playing games.

The Good Dinosaur is more humble than Pixar's typical fare, choosing to refine and riff on familiar ideas and themes rather than build new ones from the ground up and live on the cutting edge.

Rather than build a new program from scratch, Democracy Prep entered into a partnership with the Andre Agassi College Prep Academy and has transformed the existing school into Democracy Prep at the Agassi Campus.

i work in closely related field, all the challenges you mentioned are possible, but with them buying towers from carriers they can always collect the money, it will be difficult for new entrant to get such big infrastructure and even new carrier comes they always try to use existing towers, rather than build a new one.

Not exact matches

They typically react (slowly at best) to three outside drivers: (a) their competition brings a new offering to market, and they need a quick competitive response; (b) their customers see and begin to adopt new processes and solutions, and the customers demand that their products and services conform to the new ways of doing business; or (c) they see a new tool, product, or service in the market offered by a new player and they quickly determine that this is a game - changer which they need to own (rather than try to build themselves) because they lack the internal capacity to do otherwise.

Rather than launching new stores in carefully selected spots and building slowly, Target acquired 124 locations in 2013 in one fell swoop by buying all the outlets from a defunct discounter called Zellers.

He has argued in the past that younger employees are more stimulated by a communal work environment than by the classic, more rigid structure of buildings divided into offices and cubicles, and that major corporations have to adjust in order to keep attracting new workers.

If brands want to build a relationship with teens, they should really consider helping teens discover someone new and exciting, rather than only partnering with influencers with a million followers.

No sooner had Babcook's team convinced Abgenix to move all its R&D to a new purpose - built facility in Burnaby, B.C., than that company was bought by Amgen in 2006.

May 2 (Reuters)- Amazon.com Inc said it has halted planning for a new office building in Seattle and might sub-lease rather than occupy another future tower downtown, pending a city council vote on a proposed tax on top businesses.

May 2 - Amazon.com Inc said it has halted planning for a new office building in Seattle and might sub-lease rather than occupy another future tower downtown, pending a city council vote on a proposed tax on top businesses.

The people that start from scratch and build something new are very different people than the people who makes sure that an operation runs effectively and efficiently.

One of the requirements of scaling is building new levels of leadership within a company, and this can mean that a dedicated, talented manager will have to report to a new manager with a different set of talents rather than being promoted into that role.

More than ever, new businesses are being built.