- Published: 06.11.2025.
Post-earthquake reconstruction – 14,050 reconstruction projects completed, 466 family houses built
At today’s Government session, the first one this month, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Branko Bačić presented his monthly report on the current progress of post-earthquake reconstruction.
With regard to both Petrinja and Zagreb areas, 14,050 reconstruction projects have been completed - 13,270 referring to private buildings and houses comprising 53,016 separate units, and 780 referring to public use buildings and infrastructure, whose reconstruction started from the EU Solidarity Fund and continued with funds from NRRP and the state budget.As part of the reconstruction process, 11,932 non-structural reconstruction projects have been completed, 606 structural reconstruction projects, and 466 family houses have been constructed. At the same time, 70 family houses have been purchased for citizens who decided to purchase a house instead of constructing a replacement one.
Reconstruction in progress at 1,980 locations, most projects include complex structural reconstruction
Currently the reconstruction is in progress at 1,980 locations, 205 family houses are under construction.
Furthermore, 1,710 locations are in the procurement phase, including 370 multiapartment buildings and 1,340 family houses with a total value of 133.9 million euro. The majority of them refer to complex structural reconstruction.
Let us recall that the Mali Vatikan block has been reconstructed based on the principle of block reconstruction, which may involve over 200-250 housing units in one procurement. This is a non-structural reconstruction project which spans 47,557 square meters. The complex comprises the streets Vlaška, Bauerova, Martićeva and Prolaz Jurja Ratkaja, including 25 entrances with 259 separate units - 239 housing units and 20 business units. The contracted construction price is 4.2 million euro including VAT.
Another seven blocks - Blok 20, Kukovićeva kuća, Medulić, Zrinski, Visoka, Rimska ulica (Sisak), Gajeva (Petrinja) are in the procurement phase, and they entail 81 buildings and 802 separate units, with a total value of construction amounting to 54.48 million euro.
Three more blocks in Zagreb are in the procurement preparation phase - Blok Svačić, Ravno Rašće, Trg bana J. Jelačića - with a total of 55 buildings and 408 separate units, and a total construction value of 31.3 million euro.
The works are in progress for two blocks in Sisak comprising 11 entrances and 254 separate units. These are the block at Ulica hrvatskog narodnog preporda 2-10 and Ulica Ivana Meštrovića 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11. The total construction value is 23.56 million euro.
1,152 reconstruction projects of public use buildings and infrastructure
From the EU Solidarity Fund, 1,309 projects have been contracted and 1,152 completed. Moreover, 1,003 billion euro has been spent from the EU Solidarity Fund, additional 1.47 billion euro from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, and the remaining part, 1.32 billion euro, has been allocated from the state budget.
The comprehensive reconstruction of public buildings includes 209 contracted projects worth 2.43 billion euro. By now, 86 projects have been completed, 115 is under reconstruction, and eight projects are in different preparatory phases.
“By the end of June 2026, which is the deadline for completing the projects financed from NRRP, we have to finish all our planned activities. I am confident that we will do so in order to meet the defined goal of 600,000 square meters of reconstructed public use buildings,” the Minister pointed out.
Let us recall, the post-earthquake reconstruction, whose financing started from the EU Solidarity Fund, entails 74 healthcare institutions, 156 schools and kindergartens, 27 faculties, 293 cultural heritage buildings, 600 kilometres of roads and 77 bridges and other projects of municipal and energy infrastructure.
The Minister highlighted last month’s tour of the construction site of the largest healthcare investment - KBC Zagreb - Stage III. Reconstruction projects of other public use buildings have also been completed - the School of Medicine in Zagreb, Šalata, which will be opened mid-December, and Petrova Hospital in Zagreb, which has also been reconstructed and opened.
In Sisak, the reconstructed Retirement home and the Galdovo kindergarten have been opened. Cultural heritage buildings have also been opened - the second stage of the Croatian National Theatre in Adžijina ulica in Zagreb, the interior of the parish church of St Helena in Zabok and Mihalić’s House of Literature in Karlovac.
A contract for the construction of a new student dormitory has been signed in Petrinja, and it will be financed through a World Bank loan.
Increasing the housing stock in Sisak-Moslavina County
Minister Bačić also commented on increasing the housing stock in Sisak-Moslavina County, which includes planned construction of 59 new multiapartment buildings comprising 1,024 apartments.
“By now, we have completed and occupied 42 buildings, 15 buildings are under construction, and two are in preparatory stages. Last month three new buildings in Glina and four new buildings in Topusko were occupied.”
Out of the 42 completed buildings, fifteen buildings are located in Sisak, eight in Petrinja, eight in Glina, four in Topusko, two in Gvozd and one in Kutina, Dvor, Jasenovac, Lekenik and Novska each.
Out of the 59 planned buildings, twenty buildings are cofinanced from the Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion, which are fully completed. Under two other projects, three more buildings have been completed - two from the Programme of State-Subsidised Housing Construction in Sisak and one from the programme of interdepartmental cooperation in Novska.
It is important to add that a total of 4.12 billion euro has been spent on the reconstruction of public and private property - 2.39 billion euro for the Zagreb earthquake area, and 1.73 billion euro for the Petrinja earthquake area. The state budget allocates 1.3 billion euro for the reconstruction.