SCWML have signed a new contract with Croatian consulting firm Ingenuitas d.o.o. to prepare an Environmental Statement for the Council of Europe Development Bank in respect of the new Sports and Cultural Centre in Mostar, BiH. The main design of the Sport and Cultural Centre is being carried out by a Dutch firm of architects and the project is being locally managed by a team of experts from Mostar City Municipality. The project is being conducted in two phase a subterranean phase to include parking and both business and shopping space followed by a surface development consisting of the Cultural and Sports complex. The chosen development site was the former site of a sports centre and a general hospital.

The location of the development is strategically as well as historically significant as it sits within the centre of the city in an area that previously represented the front line in the Bosnian conflict. The Mayor of Mostar hopes that in redeveloping the old frontline corridor it will bring the old factions together and remove the stigma of the old dividing line. He hopes that a new generation in Mostar will grow up and be drawn together through Sport, a common Culture and Commerce. The Sport and Cultural Centre will be one of many new developments in the city which should facilitate this process of reconciliation.


The preparation of the environmental statement will involve SCWML for around 15 days and is part of an overall feasibility study being undertaken on behalf of the Council of Europe Development Bank in regard to Phase II of the project. The actual construction of the new centre will take around two years with work commencing on phase II around July 2012.


SCWML have now been involved in the preparation of 5 Environmental Statements for the Council of Europe Development Bank and are pleased to continue this work through this latest contract through Ingenuitas d.o.o. who's Managing Director Mr Dario Kauric will be the team leader on the Feasibility Report preparation project. The project also gives Scott Crossett the opportunity to work again with two colleagues from the Naklo Prison project in Sarajevo, Mr Gjoko Snegar, the deputy team leader and latterly team leader on the Naklo project and Mrs Susana Beaumard, the procurement expert from the same project.