We filed a patent application describing the manufacturing process for the compound, as well as the design of an interlocking brick system for floating structures. We have an ongoing research project with the University of British Columbia to optimize the composite, and a partnership with the Heiltsuk First Nation which wants to host the first manufacturing facility. 

Waterstudio, a water-based architecture firm based in the Netherlands, has signed an LOI to buy SeaBrick as soon as they are available. We have also received purchase interest from local (Vancouver-based) landscaping supply companies for pavers made of “kelpstone,” our working name for the uncoated kelp composite.

There is more information about SeaBrick at bit.ly/seabricknotion

John Richardson is an accomplished founder, mathematician, technologist and the inventor of SeaBrick. He is also the founder of Ethelo, which has been used by Gitcoin for assessing eligibility of grant applications in numerous previous Gitcoin granting rounds. A former lawyer and mathematician, he was named a world-leading social entrepreneur by the Ashoka Foundation in 2005.

Laurel Tincher is a multi-time founder who has worked as an executive in marine infrastructure for over six years. She is an expert in sustainability and was recently named one of the top 50 global design thinkers. She is the co-founder of Pull to Refresh, an ocean engineering company developing solar unmanned vessels for growing and sinking seaweed. Her work has been featured in hundreds of media outlets including the New York Times.

