CORRIDOR FOR CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PLATFORM AND AIRPORT FACILITIES AT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
This third area of construction was designed and built by CEGAZ. The constructive process was also full with difficulties created as a consequence of the same opposition of the local airport administrative authorities because of their internal political changes, trying to block any change in the existing airport facilities. With the same professional initiative, our company made multiple additional schedules, programs and compromises in order to get the permission to start with the construction works and to comply with the construction process and the extremely tight contractual schedule of 140 days for the complete design and construction of the project. Our safety site program and the excellent coordination on each construction procedure, allowed the International Airport of Quito to keep working on all activities without any delays or impacts at all to the people (passengers) and companies (airlines) using the different facilities.
The construction area was over 2000 m², and the principal work activities were the following:
Topographical leveling of 2000 m²; base foundation works, complete fabrication and installation of over 600 tons of metallic structures, installation of 1.860 m2 of metallic roof system; fabrication and installation of 1.280 m2 of laminated glasses, installation of over 2.000 m2 of American carpet (including access areas), fabrication and installation of 1.300 m2 of aluminum metallic panels for connections; 2.000 m2 concrete placing on areas of concrete slabs with metallic support; complete fabrication and installation of five metallic emergency stairs; fabrication and installation of aluminum and crystal doors; installation of an automatic fire protection system; installation of complete set of luminaries; complete fabrication and installation of a flow divider screen in aluminum and glasses.
For arrivals, this area was designed as connection area between airplanes and the migration / customs area, and for departures as connection area between the transit areas (gates) and the airplanes; it has crystal doors for flow control. The corridor has 265 m as total length and has two levels; the first one on ground is used for the transit of the vehicles supplying and attending the flights requirements, and the upper level is exclusively for persons (passengers and airline controllers).