Patriot Building Company, Inc.


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Patriot Building Company, Inc.
400 Millstone Drive,
Suite 100
P.O. Box 1419
Hillsborough, NC 27278

Phone: (919) 732-8200
Fax: (919) 732-1517

© Patriot Building Company, Inc. 2001


Management Team

Ward L. Setzer, President
Chief Estimator, CEO


Ward has over 40 years of experience in the commercial construction business. A graduate of North Carolina State University with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering, Ward worked for several quality construction companies throughout North Carolina before joining Security Building Company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1973. He worked with Security until 1990 before joining the management team of Trout & Riggs Construction Company. In 1991, he decided to open his own construction company and started Patriot Building Company.  As well as running all aspects of the business, overseeing all Estimating and Project Management, Ward also manages several projects. 

Rocky McDonald
Estimating / Project Management

Rocky graduated from NC State University in 1990. He started work in construction and landscaping and later advanced to the truss industry where he worked for 15 years as an estimator, designer, sales representative and software trainer.
He then joined Weaver Cooke Const., LLC as an estimator for 3 years, then went to the Contractor Yard (Pro-Build) in Greensboro where he worked as a Commercial Sales Rep. Still later he joined Sharpe Interiors where he worked several years as a sales rep. / estimator , before coming to Patriot Building Company in October of 2008.

Mike Spangler
Estimating / Project Superintendent

Mike started out in construction in high school, 1977 where he specialized in architectural drafting and design studies. While still in school he worked part time in the mechanical design department for SHS & Assoc, in charge of the redesign and updating of the Veterans Administration Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL.
Later he joined Florida Power Corp. where he worked for several years in the updating department in charge of updating the mechanical design drawings on the Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant.
After that he worked with several Architectural firms in residential design before going to the the field as a rough carpentry tech. From there he started a residential home inspection service that eventually led to a business in home repairs & remodeling before joining Patriot Building Company in April of 2007.

Keith Kirkman
Project Superintendent

 Billy Gates
Project Superintendent

Glenn Good
Project Superintendent

Dana Kimrey
Project Superintendent

Ruben Perez
Project Superintendent

Ervin Ray
Project Superintendent

 Chris Shambley
Project Superintendent

Curtis Warden
Project Superintendent

Jackie Lohr
Bookkeepping / Accounting

Lynn Patterson
Office Manager