About

Built on accountability.

Engroot Consulting is an expert-led technical and project management firm in Winnipeg. We combine expert oversight, detailed planning and hands-on construction support to keep capital projects moving — on scope, on schedule, on budget.

Who we are

The right partner for your most important projects.

We started Engroot Consulting because too many good projects were being handed between specialists who never spoke to each other.

A mechanical issue became a materials issue became a controls issue, and each consultant answered only for their slice. Nobody owned the whole thing. Schedules slipped in the handoffs, and the client paid for it twice — once in fees and once in rework.

So we built a firm around the opposite idea: one team, five disciplines, and a single person accountable for the outcome. Our engineers work across mechanical, materials science, nanotechnology, nuclear and computer engineering, and our project managers stay on site through commissioning and turnover.

Quality, safety and long-term relationships, in that order. Most of our work comes from clients who have already worked with us once — which is the only satisfaction metric we think is worth quoting.

Work with us
  • Expert-led, not sales-led

    The engineer who scopes your project is the engineer who works on it.

  • One point of accountability

    A single named lead owns the deliverable, across every discipline it touches.

  • We say no when it's warranted

    If a design doesn't hold up, you hear it early — not after it's in the ground.

  • Local, and staying local

    Based in Winnipeg, invested in Manitoba industry, working across Canada.

Our values

Four things we don't negotiate on.

01

Quality

Work is checked before it leaves. Rigorous QA is cheaper than rework, every single time.

02

Safety

Design decisions carry safety consequences years later. We treat them that way from day one.

03

Candour

Clear reporting, honest status, bad news early. Surprises are a failure of communication.

04

Relationships

We'd rather be your engineer for a decade than win one project on price.

Professional standing

Registered, certified, accountable.

Every credential below is a public, verifiable registration — not a marketing claim.

Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)

Registered with Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba (EGM, ID 49640) and APEGS Saskatchewan (ID 68783) — in good standing in both provinces, both publicly verifiable.

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI), certification number 4233204 — schedule, cost and risk control applied on every engagement.

Autodesk Certified

AutoCAD and Inventor certification issued by SolidCAD, accreditation number 0059828 — detailed design carried through to construction documentation.

Murali Krishna Tummalapalli

M.Sc. · M.Tech. · P.Eng. (MB, SK) · PMP

Founder & Managing Director
P.Eng. · EGM #49640 P.Eng. · APEGS #68783 PMP · PMI #4233204 Autodesk · #0059828

Leadership

The engineer who signs the drawing.

Murali founded Engroot Consulting after more than a decade delivering capital projects and applied research across process manufacturing, mining equipment and nuclear materials science — work spanning a $40,000 hygienic vacuum system through to an $8 million hydrochloric acid facility construction project.

He has co-invented two granted patents — an automated railcar loading and unloading system, and a nano-biofertilizer formulation — and his nuclear fuels research at the University of Saskatchewan is published in Q1 journals and supports Canada's small modular reactor programs.

He is also the founder of Tasksetters.com, a project management and business consulting firm — bringing the same schedule, cost and risk discipline to every engagement Engroot delivers.

Talk to Murali

Tell us what you're building.

A short conversation is usually enough to tell you whether we're the right fit — and what it would take. No charge for the first consult.