New Quito airport, Ecuador: high-flying success via collaboration
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Set at 8500 ft (2590 m) high in the Ecuadorian Andes the New Quito International Airport, opened in February 2013, is a landmark both in airport development in Latin America as well as in project finance. The location of this airport, which replaced the old airport that had become absorbed within the City of Quito surrounded by active volcanoes, added a number of unique challenges. As well as handling over 5 million passengers annually, the airport also exports some 20 million roses per day during peak times to destinations around the world. This paper summarises the project scope and benefits, key responsibilities, technical challenges and collaborative working that enabled the US$700 million airport development to meet contractual deadlines. Set up as a government-to-government Canadian–Ecuadorian prime contract, drawing in investors from Canada, USA and Brazil, with international financial institutions from the USA and Canada, the airport was built to international standards with suppliers from across the Americas and Europe, within the exacting obligations of the International Financial Organisation's Equator principles. The paper also examines the total concession structure including impact of a political event and the use of multiple sub-concessions needed for a fully operational airport. The authors' involvement throughout the planning, design and development of the new airport brings together important reference material for the particular benefit of those involved in transport concession projects.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".