Speaking in an interview with Croatian Radio, Horvat said that architects and civil engineers of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts were willing to prepare solutions for reconstruction and present them on February 1.
“What we will opt for is yet to be decided,” the vice-president of the task force dealing with the aftermath of the 29 December earthquake in Sisak-Moslavina County said, noting that the task force wanted reconstruction to last no longer than two years.
€111 million to be secured from EU for quake-hit area
Horvat said that Croatia would ask the European Commission for aid in the amount of €111 million to be invested in the earthquake-hit Banovina region to rebuild around 1,300 houses destroyed in the earthquake.
He said the cost of reconstruction would range between €750 to 1,000 per square metre while the rest of funding should be secured from new sources and the state budget.
Tourism association to provide 250 prefab houses
Horvat also said that the Croatian Tourism Association (HUT) planned to deliver close to 250 prefab houses with the area of 24-32 square metres to Banovina.
Around 630 more temporary housing units have been ordered from Croatian producers and they will be delivered to the quake-hit area by February 3, he said.
The HGSS mountain rescue service has divided the area into sectors and their priority is to remove, in cooperation with firefighters, roofs from damaged houses and visit remote hamlets in the area and deliver aid to their residents.
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