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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.


     Ryan Wilkinson. Ryan is a Graduate Research Assistant investigating lightweight cellular concrete as a back-
     fill  material  for  cantilever  retaining  walls.    Ryan  received  his  MS  degree  in  Civil  Engineering  from  Brigham
     Young University in April 2020 and is expecting to complete his MS degree in April 2021. Ryan will go to work
     for a structural engineering consulting firm upon graduation.



                       Jeff Wycoff, PE. Jeff is the business development and marketing manager  at Cell-Crete
                       Corp. Jeff Wykoff provides technical and education resources, conceptual and budget cost
                       assistance to infrastructure owners, engineers, and developers to benefit from the versatility of
                       Lightweight Cellular Concrete (LCC).  Jeff’s LCC experience is diverse, extending to tunnels,
                       dams, levees, ports, embankments, and other infrastructure.  Jeff is active in professional
                       societies including ASCE, CalGeo, SEAOC, and SME.  Jeff received his bachelor’s degree
                       in Civil Engineering With Distinction at the University of Minnesota.  Jeff is licensed as a Civil
                       Engineer in the state of California and is also licensed as a Civil, or Structural, or Professional
                       Engineer in 4 other states.
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