Officers are struggling with obsolete facilities and a scarcity of instructors.

S. Frederick Starr, Oberlin's president, estimates that about $150 million will be required just to replace obsolete facilities and instrumentsin the next 10 years.

In 2007, Evraz Place (the former Exhibition Association in Regina) began a $180-million revitalization program to upgrade or replace rundown or obsolete facilities over a 10-year period.

The obsolete 90-year-old facility at Richmond Hill, Queens, discourages preventive repair, causing efficiency to dwindle and replacement costs to soar.

A staff deeply committed to its patients made such obsolete facilities seem unimportant.

The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) were also involved, because the Brocken Railway was needed to haul away the obsolete, military facilities on the Brocken.

Plant Field slowly became obsolete as more specialized sports facilities were built around Tampa.

It's an example of how to re-use obsolete military facilities.

"That facility was really an obsolete facility," Sanitation Commissioner Emily Lloyd said.

The Sorrell Center replaced obsolete facilities with technologically equipped classrooms and class laboratories, including clinical simulation rooms, interaction rooms, amphitheaters and a campus events center.