Engineers who think like business owners
Every firm delivers drawings. We deliver the number the drawings have to hit, and we tell you before you spend it.
Engcomp is a multidisciplinary industrial and mining engineering firm based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, serving potash, uranium, gold and agricultural processing operations across Western Canada and internationally.
Forecast at completion, week by week
The conversation we would rather have at week six than at week forty.
- Deviation flagged
- Week 6
- Options tabled
- 3
- Closed at
- -1.4%
Illustrative. A shape, not a project. It shows what forecasting against the outcome rather than against the budget does to the moment a deviation surfaces. No client figures are used and none are implied.
The firm, in figures
What makes us different is when we tell you
Every engineering firm delivers drawings. Fewer treat the budget and the schedule as their own problem. We are entrepreneurs first, and a technical solution on its own is rarely what the client actually needs.
Whatever we design and get built has to make money in the long run, or it was not worth doing.
Every project is part of a business case. So before a line is drawn we ask what the asset has to earn, what it can cost, and which decisions actually move that answer. Then we engineer to the answer, with cost, schedule and risk carried as live numbers on the same ledger as the design.
That is why cost engineering, quantitative risk analysis and detailed design sit in one building. A forecast that lives in a different company from the designers arrives too late to change anything.
The two positions on the track are chosen to make the argument legible. They are not drawn from a specific project and no client work is represented here.
We quantify risk. We do not add 15% and hope.
Every estimate we issue carries an AACE International Recommended Practice 18R-97 class, a probabilistic range and a contingency that can be defended to a board. The chart below samples a cost model live in your browser; the figures beneath it are the same model's output.
| P10 | $43.9M |
|---|---|
| P50, base case | $49.6M |
| P80, recommended contingency | $54.1M |
| P90 | $56.8M |
| Contingency to P80 | +12.7% |
Illustrative. A generic eight-item cost model on a $48M base, sampled in your browser to show how an estimate class widens or narrows a contingency. It is not an Engcomp estimate and not a project.
Studies with the economics attached
The estimate, the schedule and the engineering reconciled inside one document rather than stapled together at the end of one.
Decision analysis before design
Framing, value of information and quantitative risk analysis, so capital goes to the option that survives the downside case rather than the one that renders best.
Model-based delivery
Federated models and a single common data environment, aligned to ISO 19650, so the deliverables are checked against each other rather than against a memory of the last revision.
Every discipline under one roof
One contract, one schedule, one accountable engineer — with subconsultants and partner firms managed end to end when a project needs more than we carry in house.
Mining Engineering
Mine design, materials handling and underground infrastructure.
Process Engineering
Process design and metallurgy for mineral and food processing.
Mechanical Engineering
Equipment, piping and mechanical systems.
Structural Engineering
Steel, concrete and foundations for industrial facilities.
Electrical & Instrumentation
Power distribution, controls and instrumentation.
Cost Engineering
CAPEX and OPEX estimating, economic modelling and scheduling.
Risk & Decision Analysis
Quantitative risk analysis and decision quality facilitation.
Analytics
Simulation, optimisation and logistics modelling.
Project Management
Single-provider delivery, forecasting and subconsultant coordination.
Studies & Regulatory Reporting
NI 43-101, JORC and AACE-class studies from PEA through feasibility.
Asset Integrity
Structural assessment and life extension for ageing infrastructure.
Need more than a discipline?
Studies and regulatory reporting, embedded subject-matter experts and facilitated planning for owners' teams.
Talk to an engineerFrom the business question to the as-built
The sequence matters. Economics first, so every later decision has a number to answer to. Studies, detailed engineering and construction support follow the same ledger.
Frame the decision
What does the asset have to earn, and which uncertainties actually move that answer? Facilitated framing with the owner's team.
Output: decision hierarchy, value drivers
Model economics and risk
Options modelled end to end — capital, operating cost, schedule and probabilistic risk — before anyone commits to a flowsheet.
Output: early-class estimate, P50 and P80
Study and report
Studies written to the reporting standard the project has to satisfy, with the estimate, schedule and engineering reconciled in one package.
Output: technical report, tightened estimate
Engineer in detail
Every discipline on one schedule and one common data environment. Forecast at completion reviewed weekly and reported to you the same day.
Output: IFC packages, control estimate
Build and hand over
Field engineering, RFI turnaround and as-builts — then a close-out that reconciles the early forecast against what you actually spent.
Output: as-builts, reconciled cost report
Who we work for
Clients
- Nutrien
- Cameco
- Orano
- Mosaic
- K+S
- BHP
- Denison Mines
- Kore Potash
- Gensource Potash
- Saskatchewan Mining and Minerals Inc.
- Fission Uranium
- SSR Mining
- ADM
- Vale
Tell us what you are trying to build
A named engineer will reply — not a mailbox. Tell us the problem and the constraints, and we will tell you plainly whether we are the right firm for it.
Jason Mewis, P.Eng.President. Reads every enquiry that comes in.