Designed as an extra-dosed bridge, it spans 810 meters with a main span of 150 meters, making it Laos' first highway bridge to utilize modern cable-stayed technology. The bridge features four pylons, each equipped with six stay cables. ucture bridge achievement throughout the region was the introduction in 1980 of the Transfield prefabricated bridge sys m throughout the South East Asia region. This included Transfield's Joint Ven erection by untrained labour using only basic equipment augmented terway locations where a steel. This table presents a non-exhaustive list of the road and railway bridges with spans greater than 100 metres (328 ft) or total lengths longer than 1,000 metres (3,281 ft). "International Database for Civil and Structural Engineering". ^ "Third Thai–Lao Friendship. In 2013, Waagner-Biro supplied its first modular steel bridge to the Republic of Laos. Dense jungles, deep river gorges, and steep. Laos' longest wooden bridge in Nong district, Savannakhet Province. Stretching approximately 270 meters in length and. A 50m span steel truss bridge built to BS5400 standards is especially common in Laos: it's long enough to cross most small-to-medium rivers (like the Nam Ngum or Nam Ou) but lightweight enough to haul up narrow mountain roads where heavy concrete beams can't go. But here's the catch: these bridges.