Jure Radić (15 September 1953 – 10 September 2016) was a Croatian
civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...
and politician.
[Jure Radić preminuo u 63. godini nakon duge i teške bolesti]
Radić was born in
Makarska
Makarska (; it, Macarsca, ; german: Macharscha) is a town on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia, about southeast of Split (city), Split and northwest of Dubrovnik, in the Split-Dalmatia County.
Makarska is a prominent regional tourist center, ...
. He graduated in 1977 and received his PhD in 1987 at the
Faculty of Civil Engineering in Zagreb, where he also worked from 1977. In 1996 he was
tenured. Since 1990 he is the Head of the Department for Bridges as well as the Structural Engineering Institute.
Radić was one of the founders of the
Croatian Institute for Bridges. His work mostly dealt with
bridge construction and
concrete structures. He led several construction projects, among which are the development strategy of Croatian highways, post-war reconstruction model of Croatia, projects
Maslenica Bridge and
Pelješac Bridge, and others.
Since 1989, Radić was the President of the
Croatian Society of Structural Engineers, and since 1995 president of the
Croatian Association of Engineers. Since 2007 he was the general manager of
Institut IGH. He served as the Croatian Minister of Science (1992), Head of the Office of the President of Croatia (1992–1994), Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Development and Reconstruction (1994–2000), as a Member of Parliament and the head of the Committee on Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communications (2000–2003). He authored nine books, numerous scientific and technical papers. He was awarded National Award for Science in 2004.
Radić died of
gastric cancer
Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is a cancer that develops from the lining of the stomach. Most cases of stomach cancers are gastric carcinomas, which can be divided into a number of subtypes, including gastric adenocarcinomas. Lymph ...
on 10 September 2016. He was 63 years old.
[Politician Jure Radic dies]
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Works
* ''Mostovi'', 2002
* ''Konstruiranje mostova'', co-authored, 2005
References
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1953 births
2016 deaths
People from Makarska
Government ministers of Croatia
Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament
University of Zagreb alumni
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
Croatian Democratic Union politicians