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SPEAKER BIOS
SPEAKER BIOS

Emrah Türer, CE. Emrah Türer is a Civil Engineer who has MSc. Degree on Geotechnical
Engineering. Emrah works for an EPS Company: Austrotherm Turkey as Civil Engineering
Applications Department Executive for three years. They are designing roadways, bridge
approachs ramps, retaining walls and buried culverts with EPS Block (Geofoam) projects
and providing site supervision and instrumantation services in geofoam applications.

Jan Vaslestad, PhD. Dr. Vaslestad has 40 years of geotechnical research, design and
construction experience. He is working in Norwegian Public Roads Administration, and has
also private practice for 10 years with geotechnical consultancy, buried structures and
geosynthetics. He has been adjunct professor at Norwegian University of Life Sciences since
2008, and visiting associate professor at University of Utah from 2014 to 2018. Dr Vaslestad
has been involved with several projects using lightweight fill materials, buried structures and
geosynthetics. He has delivered geotechnical guest lectures and seminars in 25 countries.

Diego Villegas. Diego is the Vice President of Cell-Crete’s Cellular Concrete Division, he
has been with Cell-Crete for 14 years. He started his construction career in a small home-
building company his brother started during the housing boom in 2005. He began at Cell-
Crete as a draftsman in 2007 when he was a sophomore in college, The first major project
he was tasked with when he was hired was the City Center project in Las Vegas it required
LWICC on most of the casino roof’s and Cellular Concrete at all the pool, plazas, and main
entryway’s. Since then he has been involved with some of the largest LCC projects in the
country. He likes working for this family-run company
since it has allowed him to make a lot of his own
decisions and be involved in every aspect of the
business, which has helped him grow professionally.
He has been a part of several technical papers
and research of cellular concrete most notably
the collaboration of Dr. Tiwari’s Mechanical and
Dynamic properties of LCC in addition to the current
research being completed as a pooled fund study
for DOT’s at Brigham Young University.

Stan Peters, PE - Principal Ryan Wilkinson. Ryan is a Graduate
Research
Assistant
investigating
Licensed in CO, WY, TX lightweight cellular concrete as
a backfill material for cantilever
StanPetersPE@aol.com retaining walls. Ryan received his
MS degree in Civil Engineering from
(303) 947-5828 Brigham Young University in April
2020 and is expecting to complete
his MS degree in April 2021. Ryan will go to work
• Permeability Testing of PLDCC for a structural engineering consulting firm upon
graduation.
• Cellular Concrete & Grout Mix Designs

• Materials Development & Testing Jeff Wykoff. Jeff is the business
development/marketing manager
• Concrete Consulting & Forensics at Cell-Crete Corporation.