James B. Porter

Mr. Porter was Chief Engineer and VP – Engineering and Operations for DuPont until his retirement in 2008. After joining DuPont in 1966, he was named VP of Engineering in 1996, and later became VP of Safety, Health & Environment and Engineering in 2004. He has served as chair for the Construction Industry Institute (CII) and was the 2004 recipient of CII’s Carroll H. Dunn Award of Excellence. He received the ECC Achievement Award in 2005 and was the first recipient of FIATECH’s ‘James B. Porter, Jr. Award for Technology Leadership’ in 2008. He is a member of several Boards of Directors and the National Academy of Construction and served on the Argonne National Laboratory Board of Governors. He received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee.