Metcon started in 2000 in Pembroke, North Carolina, panelizing and erecting metal-stud framing. The name is short for metal and construction. It’s since grown into a full-service builder and one of the larger Native American-owned contractors in the country; ownership is Lumbee. The company says 90% of its work is delivered as construction management, with a portfolio weighted toward K-12 schools, universities, healthcare and government buildings, plus an infrastructure division for water and wastewater. It’s known for energy-positive schools such as Sandy Grove Middle School. Headquarters remain in Pembroke, with offices in Raleigh, Fayetteville, Charlotte, Greensboro and Kings Mountain. In Raleigh, Metcon is a tri-venture partner with T.A. Loving and Blum on the Lenovo Center Renovation.
Lumbee-owned, founded 2000 in Pembroke
Metcon states its ownership plainly: a Native American-owned business, specifically Lumbee-owned, founded in 2000 in Pembroke, North Carolina. Pembroke remains the headquarters, and the company now describes itself as a national builder of buildings and infrastructure working throughout the Carolinas and across the United States.
Six offices are published. Pembroke is headquarters, with further locations in Fayetteville, Kings Mountain, Raleigh and Greensboro in North Carolina, and a listing that pairs Charlotte with Columbia, where the company’s own timeline records a South Carolina office.
Ten market sectors and seven delivery routes
The sector list is where the practice differs from a general building contractor. Ten are named: higher education, K-12 schools, sports and entertainment, government, commercial, healthcare, hospitality and multifamily, infrastructure, energy, and Native American projects. The last of those is a distinct practice area rather than a demographic label, and it sits alongside a dedicated infrastructure division.
The delivery methods run to seven: preconstruction, virtual design and construction using BIM, general contracting, construction management including construction management at risk, design-build, the infrastructure division, and public-private partnerships. Energy-positive projects appear as a tracked category in the company’s own statistics, which is consistent with the energy sector listing.
Recognition, and why this listing is flagged
The awards record is substantial and specific. The US Department of Commerce named Metcon National Minority Construction Firm of the Year in both 2011 and 2013. It was an OSHA Building Star contractor in 2014. In 2021 it was named Diversity Agency of the Year at Charlotte Minority Enterprise Development Week. In 2022 it was recognised as an Accredited Quality Contractor and an ABC Top Performer, and in 2023 it took an ABC Excellence in Construction Merit Award. Engineering News-Record project awards appear across multiple years.
Two of those — the ABC Accredited Quality Contractor designation and the OSHA Building Star status — are named credentials rather than project awards, so they have been recorded in the certifications field and this listing is routed for human review before being treated as fully verified. Anyone relying on them should confirm current standing directly with Associated Builders and Contractors and with OSHA, since both are time-bound programmes.
The company publishes no headcount and lists no professional memberships beyond the recognitions above. LinkedIn, X and Instagram accounts are linked from its own pages. Note that the company’s site did not respond to direct retrieval during this pass; the facts above were drawn from its own published pages via a separate fetch, and the project-count statistics it displays as animated counters could not be read reliably, so none are recorded.
