Korea and Vietnam have joined forces to maintain and manage a cable-stayed bridge.

The integrated maintenance and management system for a cable-stayed bridge, a purely domestic technology developed in Korea, will be applied early next year to the construction of the Vam Cong Bridge in Vietnam.

The bridge, currently under construction, stretches 870 meters across the Hau River in the Vam Cong region of southern Vietnam. The construction will be completed in 2017.


With the project, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will establish its Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), an instrument that measures the bridge’s minutest movements and which can even catch when it moves up or down by 10 millimeters.

In addition, a user-centered measuring system will be put place allowing the operator to adjust and manage the equipment in person. That will help avoid any data loss or damage that might be caused when other handlers operate it, and also minimize extra charges in getting the system upgraded.

“We have so far won contracts that focus on engineering and constructing, for example in Turkey, Chile and Brunei. This is the first time to share our technology in bridge maintenance and management, which is quite meaningful,” said the land ministry in its press release.

By Sohn JiAe
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
jiae5853@korea.kr