Vojislav-Vojo Bujković, a prominent businessman from Bokelje and owner of one of the largest and most successful companies here, Briv Construction, tragically lost his life on Saturday afternoon near his family home in the village of Dub in Gornjogrbalje.
Bujković died on the spot as a result of an electric shock and a fall from a height while he and his workers were working on pruning branches near one of the electricity poles on his property.
Bujković was one of the most capable and hardworking businessmen in Boka.
From humble beginnings forty years ago as a road transporter and construction contractor with one truck and one excavator, together with his brother Radovan, through hard and persistent work and the gradual acquisition of new machines and equipment, he created one of the largest and most modern construction companies in Montenegro, which today is known as Briv Construction and operating in the markets of several countries.
Briv Construction is one of the largest employers in Boka Kotorska, and behind that company are numerous large construction projects such as the construction of road infrastructure on the coast, and facilities in the local luxury tourist resorts Porto Montenegro in Tivat and Portonova in Kumbor.
Bujković's company also built a completely new coastal infrastructure a few years ago - all existing and newly built piers and the operational shore of the largest marina in Montenegro - Tivat's Porto Montenegro.
During the execution of these works, on June 15, 2015, Voj's younger brother and business partner, Radovan Bujković, tragically died in Porto Montenegro while operating a large crane that was placing metal piles into the sea.
After his brother's tragic death, Vosjilav continued to develop the family company, in which most of the seven children of the Bujković brothers are involved, and to diversify its operations.
Thus, in addition to construction and hydro-construction works, which the company deals with in Croatia, Albania and Germany, apart from Montenegro, Briv seriously entered the domain of high tourism, buying from the state, reconstructing and expanding the hotel "Teuta" in Risno.
This modernized and extended facility should start operating next year as the first "Mövenpick" hotel and resort in Montenegro, as Bujković has reached a business cooperation agreement with the famous French hotel chain "Accor" of which "Mövenpick" is one of the prestigious brands.
Although everyone recognized him primarily as a builder, Bujković was perhaps the largest private shipowner in Boka after the "golden age" of the famous local private shipowners from the end of the 19th century, because his company has a fleet of almost twenty larger or smaller hydro-construction vessels, ferries and tugboats.
With his late brother Radovan, Vojo was also known as a great philanthropist and humanitarian because the Bujković family through their company helped numerous institutions and individuals in various ways, supported various humanitarian actions and contributed to the local community through the restoration of public buildings, as well as support to religious communities.
In the spirit of the best Boke tradition of coexistence and mutual respect, they helped and supported the restoration of both their Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in Boka, among which the most significant was the restoration of the Catholic churches of Our Lady of Snow and Our Lady of Angels in Veriga near Tivat. , initiated and largely financed by the Bujkovići themselves.
Vojo continued to do this literally until the last day of his life, because just a few hours before he tragically lost his life, by donating construction materials and the work of his company's machinery, he helped arrange the parking space in front of the monastery of St. Nicholas in Prčanje.
Although he was materially well-off and objectively, he did not have to do that, Vojo Bujković, like his late brother, himself worked hard for 12 hours a day in their company until the last day, visiting all the construction sites where Briv Construction was engaged, often at the same time, not shying away from sitting at the controls of one of the construction machines himself or "crawling" to the most inaccessible trenches and parts of the construction site where Briv's workers were engaged.
It is still remembered how in April 2014, in a fire that accidentally broke out on one of their hydraulic construction vessels engaged in the expansion of Porto Montenegro, when IJ (32) from Sombor died, despite the great risk to their own lives, they personally tried to pull out and save their worker from the smoky and burning lower deck of the ship.
Vojislav Vojo Bujković will be buried on Monday, June 13 at 17 p.m. at the local cemetery in the village of Sutvara in Gornjo Grbalje.
He left behind his mother, wife, sister, two sons, a daughter and five grandchildren.
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