Where Opportunity Becomes Realty
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Founder & Senior Partner
Sarel Blaauw’s career spans more than four decades across civil infrastructure, mining, transport, capital projects, construction, operations, transformation and recovery. His professional foundation was established in civil and mining infrastructure and developed through construction management, contract-mining directorship and responsibility for multi-site operations, commercial performance and capital-intensive equipment fleets.
Sarel founded Tacmin in 1996 and subsequently secured and led multidisciplinary assignments across project development, technical studies, engineering and procurement coordination, construction, operational readiness, performance improvement and recovery.
Working across owner, PMC, EPCM, contractor and operating environments gave him a practical understanding of how technical, commercial, operational, technology and stakeholder requirements must connect for complex projects and development programmes to succeed.
Through Tacmin, Sarel helps owners, developers and enterprise leaders turn opportunities into structured commercial, capital, development and delivery pathways. His work focuses on defining principal workstreams, establishing responsibilities and interfaces, aligning project maturity with capital decisions and integrating the specialist capability required for implementation.
He leads scalable owner-side development and delivery mandates while owners retain strategic and commercial control. Depending on the assignment, his role may extend from opportunity development, strategic capital engagement and project readiness through implementation, operational transition and performance improvement.
Sarel’s leadership reflects Tacmin’s purpose: to clarify the opportunity, establish the pathway, build readiness, integrate the required capability and translate strategic intent into practical, sustainable outcomes.
Built through delivery. Driven by outcomes.
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Built through delivery. Driven by outcomes.
Sarel Blaauw
senior partner
+61 498 785 165