“In building reefs, corals have developed an incredible ability to calcify. They are the most prolific mineralizers on the planet but I realized straight away that I could form a cement that didn't produce carbon dioxide, in fact, it could use carbon dioxide as a raw material, just like corals do. In biomimicking what corals do, we are really trying to mimic how corals can mineralize so rapidly and so prolifically to make the largest biologic structures on the planet such as the Great Barrier Reef.”