ABOUT OUR COMPANY
Celtic Engineering provides engineering, surveying, and construction management services for infrastructure projects across British Columbia, Alberta and North West Territories. Our team brings decades of experience in road, bridge, and site infrastructure, working in complex and regulated environments from early planning and design through permitting and construction oversight. Led by senior engineers with strong field and project-delivery backgrounds, our work emphasizes sound engineering judgment, clear coordination between disciplines, and designs that perform as intended in the field.
FEATURED PROJECTS
2025 Mount Polley Mine Tailings Dam Raise
In the summer of 2025, Celtic Engineering provided construction surveying services for the largest tailings dam raise project to date at the Mount Polley Mine, located near Williams Lake, British Columbia. The tailings dam is approximately 6 km in circumference and approximately 35 m tall, making it a complex, large-scale earthworks project requiring continuous survey support.
Celtic Engineering supplied an on-site team consisting of three surveyors and a dedicated project manager to support construction activities from start to finish. Our scope of work included all construction layout and staking required for the contractor, detailed as-built data collection, volume calculations, and regular drone flights to assist with progress monitoring and reporting.
Celtic Engineering worked closely with the engineering team and the construction contractor on a daily basis to address design updates, field conditions, and sequencing requirements, ensuring efficient execution and accurate survey deliverables.
NORZINC - PRAIRIE CREEK MINE ACCESS ROAD
NorZinc’s Prairie Creek Mine is a remote zinc–lead–silver project in the Northwest Territories that depends on a long, complex access corridor for development and operations. Celtic Engineering initially provided construction supervision during the phase 1 winter road, supporting access and logistics in challenging northern conditions and assisting in writing a Design Based Memorandum that outlines the inputs and requirements applied to the design process .
Celtic Engineering was subsequently appointed Engineer of Record, taking the lead over a multidisciplinary team of engineers and other professionals responsible for gathering and implementation of data required to complete the design and satisfy regulatory requirements. The 170 km all-season access road crossed varying terrain, through flatter wetlands, foothills up to mountainous sub alpine and alpine terrain to develop final alignments and completing 50+ bridge field surveys and incorporation of structure designs to inform alignment development, design, and constructability.
In parallel, we continue to provide construction management input, participating in logistics planning, costing, and feasibility discussions to ensure the evolving design reflects real construction constraints and long-term operational viability.