Specialty Section Meeting + CLE | Construction Defects

Stephen Patterson is a licensed professional engineer and registered roof consultant with more than 50 years of professional experience in the roofing and waterproofing industry.  Mr. Patterson was a long-time member and former chairman of the Construction Research Center at the University of Texas at Arlington. 

Mr. Patterson has published Roof Design and Practice, a book on roofing design, a series of seven monographs on wind and drainage design, and more than a dozen peer-review papers on roofing. 

Mr. Patterson founded Roof Technical Services, Inc. (Rooftech), which is a consulting engineering firm that has been providing a wide variety of professional services including forensic engineering services related to roofing and waterproofing for more than 40 years. 

Mr. Patterson has investigated and provided litigation support on more than 70 roof collapses, hundreds of wind and hail losses, and numerous construction defect cases.