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About Engroot
Who we are
Engineering rooted in expertise, making life better.
Engroot Consulting delivers engineering, consulting and project management to industries, utilities and municipalities across Canada and globally. From our base in Winnipeg, Manitoba, we support capital projects in agriculture and food processing, manufacturing, power, water, mining and clean energy.
We bring mechanical, materials, nanotechnology, nuclear and computer engineering together under one accountable team. Clients get the depth of a specialist firm with the coordination of a single point of contact, from feasibility and design through validation, professional sealing and on-site construction support.
Our purpose
To make the infrastructure and industry people depend on safer, more efficient and built to last.
Our vision
To be the engineering partner clients trust with their most complex projects, for decades rather than for a single job.
Our promise
One accountable team, honest reporting and work that holds up long after the drawings are sealed.
Engroot at a glance
Proven on real capital projects
Our approach
Fewer handoffs. Clear ownership. Better outcomes.
Too many projects stall in the gaps between specialists, where a mechanical problem becomes a materials problem and then a controls problem, and no one owns the whole. We are organised to close those gaps.
Our engineers work across disciplines from day one, and our project managers stay on-site through commissioning and turnover. Most of our work comes from clients who have worked with us before.
Explore our servicesOur values
What we don't negotiate on
Quality
Work is checked before it leaves. Rigorous QA is cheaper than rework, every single time.
Safety
Design decisions carry safety consequences years later. We treat them that way from day one.
Candour
Clear reporting, honest status, bad news early. Surprises are a failure of communication.
Relationships
We'd rather be your engineer for a decade than win one project on price.
Leadership
Murali Krishna Tummalapalli
Founder and Managing Director
M.Sc., M.Tech., P.Eng. (MB, SK), PMP
Murali founded Engroot Consulting after more than a decade delivering capital projects and applied research across process manufacturing, mechanical engineering, mining equipment and nuclear materials science, from small systems to multi-million-dollar process facilities.
He is co-inventor on two granted patents, an automated railcar loading and unloading system and a nano-biofertilizer formulation. His mechanical and nuclear engineering work 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.
Credentials
Registered, licensed, certified, verifiable
Registered Business
Registered with the Manitoba Companies Office under The Business Names Registration Act, registry number 10278839 — a recognised, publicly listed Manitoba engineering business.
Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)
Licensed 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.
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