Bio
A blend of industry experience and private practice produces the capabilities you would expect from an industry expert like Patrick Moffett. From large corporate clients to small mom-and-pops, you will benefit from the close and accessible relationship characteristics of working with Patrick.
In the past 35 years Patrick has become an expert in litigation, working with cases involving construction defects, cause and origin, environmental assessment/testing and standards of care. Patrick has helped thousands of leaders and is inspired to help other business leaders excel in their careers. Patrick has also held several jobs, such as a paramedic, hospital infection control practitioner, hazardous materials expert, environmental/industrial hygienist, general contractor, and restoration professional.
Patrick is well-known for his experiences as a senior environmental/industrial hygienist, general contractor, technical writer, lecturer and instructor. He has specializing in the assessment and oversight of property damage remediation and the environmental clearance of property losses. Patrick also teaches environmental mitigation classes across the U.S., Canada and U.K. through various associations, and teaches as a faculty member of California State University.
His loss experience includes small but complicated losses; large losses involving schools, hospitals, shopping centers and high-rise buildings; industrial commercial properties and factory losses; catastrophic losses related to whole communities and cities; coordinating the cleanup of losses with government agencies including police, fire, hazmat, DOH, OSHA, EPA, and Fish and Game.
Patrick is a cause and effect expert where property damage results from a failure to protect the building envelope. Issues include: building pipe breaks from fresh water; sewage waste lines to broken fire suppression systems; damage resulting from sewage, water, fire, mold; mudslides and intrusion; hurricanes, windstorms, and community-wide disasters.
Patrick has published 5 books and 50 technical articles and whitepapers.
Since 1985, Patrick has had his deposition taken more than 150 times and he has provided expert testimony in arbitration and mediation hearings and court.
Patrick is a proud member of AIHA, RIA, IICRC, AIA, AIQA and EIA. He serves on the Board of Directors of the IICRC and several homeowner associations and is trustee of a nonprofit organization.
Credentials include: California Licensed General Contractor; Environmental/ Industrial Hygienist; OSHA Compliance Safety Trainer; Certified Master Restorer.
Employment:
| Year | Title | Company |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 to Current | President | Environmental Management & Engineering, Inc. 5242 Bolsa Avenue, Suite A Huntington Beach, CA 92649 |
| 1995 to 2015 | President | Environmental Management & Engineering, Inc.
5242 Bolsa Avenue, Suite A |
| 1985 to 1995 | President | Environmental Management Services 5242 Bolsa Avenue, Suite E Huntington Beach, CA 92649 |
Summary:
Patrick is a water damage cause and effect expert, where property damage results from a failure to protect the building envelope. Issues include: Building pipe breaks from fresh water, sewage waste lines to broken fire suppression systems; damage resulting from sewage, water, fire, mold; mud slides and intrusion; hurricanes, windstorms, and communitywide disasters. Patrick published 5 books, approximately 50 technical articles and 4 white papers.
Education
Loyola of Chicago:
1965-66 – Loyola University School of Banking through Continental Bank; 2-year Certificate Banking Law
University of Southern California:
1976-77 – Medical Extension, County USC Hospital in conjunction with Trade Technical College and Queen of Angels Hospital; Paramedic – California and National Certification
Specialty Training:
1992-94 – Mid-Atlantic Environmental Hygiene Resource Center (MEHRC), which is part of the University City Science Center along with support from EPA Region III and the U.S. Public Health Service Region III. Course syllabus includes: industrial hygiene practices, building science, microbiology, toxicology, microbial testing and analysis, and mitigating microbial damage affecting building materials. Courses were taught under the direction of Chin Yang, Ph.D., Eugene Cole, Ph.D., and Phil Morey, Ph.D., with presentations by Eckardt Johanning, M.D., M.Sc., and others.
University of California at Irvine:
1993-94 – Hazardous materials site assessment and management, with an emphasis in risk assessment
California State University, Dominguez Hills:
1994-95 – Occupation Health and Safety: emphasis in Industrial Hygiene, Chemicals, Toxicology, Environmental Law and Cal/OSHA Compliance
Experience
Patrick Moffett is an expert in various disciplines. He provides on-site consulting opinions related to building defects, mold, bacteria, chemicals and other environmentally caused issues. He provides best practices and standards of care; cataloging and reviewing laboratory data; building damage estimating to cost of repair estimating. In addition, he also provides consulting services to attorneys, reviews depositions and legal documents.
Committees, Teaching and Lecturing Experience:
In the 1990s, Patrick served on national standards committee of ASTM as E-50.01 Environmental Site Assessments for Phase I and Phase II remediation standards. E-50.06, the standards committee for Green (Healthy) Buildings. He also served as a committee member to the Water Loss Institute (WLI), a division of ASCR, Intl. In 1994, he contributed to IICRC’s water damage standard called S500-94, a Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration.
Patrick served on the S500-94 revision subcommittee, which met for over two years, addressing the influence of biological contaminates that are related to building sickness from floods and other disasters. The revision is called S500-99 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration. In 2003, he served on the IICRC Standards committee that established mold remediation standards involving mold remediation professionals (S520). Since 2004, he has served on the task force revising IICRC’s mold and water damage standards and guidelines.
Since 1984, Patrick has traveled extensively across the United States and Canada. He teaches yearly in Europe, addressing loss assessment, mitigation, remediation and restoration to building contractors about flooded and microbially contaminated buildings. Most of his presentations’ emphasis is on how to prevent microbial growth in wet buildings which have been contaminated with water, sewage, chemicals and toxigenic agents that are known to compromise building and occupant health.
Patrick also lectured throughout the U.S. and U.K. on the proper methods of hazard waste and contamination identification, assessment, the handling of pathogenic and microbiological waste, worker health and safety, risk prevention, field sampling, and post-remediation surveys based on IICRC’s microbial remediation course.
In 2004, Patrick was a faculty member at California State University and taught a semester course on Advanced Mold Risk Assessment and Remediation. Students included Ph.D.s, CIHs, PEs, microbiologists, attorneys, risk managers, and general contractors. Since 2004, he has lectured at Oxford campus and at Leicester University in England, and he was fortunate to present a talk on bioterrorism and the need for emergency response, which was held at the UK Police College, Bramshill, England.
In 2008, Patrick taught classes on sewage cleanup and remediation throughout Canada, which culminated with a lecture at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. In 2012, he lectured at the European Restoration Conference about the problems of rising water and ensuing mold (mould) growth. From 2013 through 2015, he taught courses in Australia involving water, mold, and sewage-related problems affecting restorers, and he also lectured on microbial problems impacting buildings after catastrophic flooding and sewage backups.
Consultation, Field Investigation and Expert Witness Testimony:
Since 1984, Patrick has been deposed over 150 times for plaintiffs and defendants. Most of his testimony focuses on inspections and testing he has completed, explaining his reports and conclusions. He has been asked about his opinions related to building damage and the extent of damage, job cost estimating, microbial remediation, and industry standards-of-care involving the mitigation and remediation of contaminated and damaged buildings. Patrick has been asked to provide expert opinions on bacteria and mold as found in laboratory samples, and based on the data, determining whether the building is still contaminated ready for repair.
Licence And Certifications
State License:
- California general contractor B-1 (active)
- registered environmental assessor (REA-1) (retired)
Advanced Certifications:
- IICRC Master Restorer (textile identification, repair and cleaning, water and fire damage restoration)
- International Concrete Repair Institute (concrete moisture testing)
- OSHA 501 General Industry trainer
