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 i ...

and politician.Jure Radić preminuo u 63. godini nakon duge i teške bolesti
Radić was born in

Makarska Makarska () 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, located on a horseshoe-shaped bay bet ...

. 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

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d. 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 A bridge is a structure built to Span (engineering), span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, whi ...

construction and

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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 The Pelješac Bridge (, ) is a cable-stayed bridge in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia. The bridge provides a fixed link from the southeastern Croatian semi-exclave to the rest of the country while bypassing Bosnia and Herzegovina's short coast ...

, 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 Institut IGH, d.d. is a Croatian company active in civil engineering professional services and scientific research, including development of designs, studies, supervision, consulting, investigation works, assessments, laboratory testing and instru ...

. 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 malignant tumor of the stomach. It is a cancer that develops in the lining of the stomach. Most cases of stomach cancers are gastric carcinomas, which can be divided into a number of subtypes ...

on 10 September 2016. He was 63 years old.

Works

* ''Mostovi'', 2002 * ''Konstruiranje mostova'', co-authored, 2005

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Radic, Jure 1953 births 2016 deaths People from Makarska Science ministers of Croatia Deputy prime ministers of Croatia Representatives in the modern Croatian Parliament University of Zagreb alumni Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Croatian Democratic Union politicians