Corridor 10 is a key axis in the Serbian road network regarded as “Category A” for environmental impact by the World Bank. The project area includes sections of the highway that pass close to settlements, river systems and environmentally-sensitive areas.
Arup was hired as the environmental management plan supervising consultant for this sensitive project. Our role included inspecting, monitoring and auditing the construction activities to ensure that environmental mitigation measures were properly implemented and that the negative environmental impacts of the project wereminimised. Arup also advised the stakeholders on measures to strengthen environmental and social performance in complying with requirements. Similarly, we performed social audits and prepared impact evaluation reports in line with the adopted Resettlement Policy Framework and the World Bank performance requirements OP 4.12. Our reviews estimated the project’s impact on the local community, both during land acquisition and construction.
Corridor 10 is vital to the economic development of the Republic of Serbia, and ensuring that its environmental and social impacts were limited has been a key factor in the project’s development. This southern section of Corridor 10 runs to the borders with FYROM (Macedonia) and Bulgaria, making this highway system – which begins in Salzburg and Budapest – important not just to Serbia but to international European economic development. Its €1.3 billion budget came in part from loan agreements between the Republic of Serbia and the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Hellenic Plan for the Economic Reconstruction of the Balkans.
Environmental management services
Arup’s work consulting onand managing environmental and social risk for the Corridor 10 southern region in Serbia included strengthening of environmental management by reviewing the environmental management plans, preparing guides, providing environmental training and preparing an effective management system.
Corridor 10 is rated as 'category A' by the World Bank for its potential environmental impact.
The scope of the service also includes monitoring and auditing of the construction activities through site inspection, system audits, monitoring audits, site restoration and landscaping; and maintenance of records and procedures throughout the project. We achieved these measures through an extensive reporting of findings noted during our supervision activities conducted on more than 15 sections, constructed by 10 different contractors, and supervised by five different engineers.
The purpose of our environmental and social impact reviews was to estimate the impact that the project has had on the local community, both during the land acquisition process and during construction, in order to summarise the negative impacts and lessons learnt and suggest improvements. The reviews included surveys of the affected persons and local community, interviews with key stakeholders and review of available documentation.
Arup is fully committed to do the right thing in sometimes challenging circumstances, particularly in the work done on the environmental and social impact of the Corridor 10 highways project. Arup team has made a real difference to the project and to the lives of people impacted by the project.
Nina Valcic
Special Advisor to General Manager of Koridori Srbije
Partners & collaborators
Institut Kirilo Savić a.d.
What we delivered
Environmental and social management of the development of a key axis in Serbia of a pan-European highway
Mitigation efforts within a Category A environmental risk project
Supervision of 15 sections of construction delivered by 10 contractors
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