The Insider

11/05/2023

For Mental Health Awareness Week, starting on Monday, Martin Duffy looks into the mental health crisis in the industry and what we can do about it.

08/03/2023

Martin Duffy, industry expert and Chair of NYHighways, speaks to women in the industry for International Women’s Day and Women in Construction Week. 

15/11/2021

According to the Department of Transport, there were over 150,000 casualties in reported road traffic incidents in 2019, and 1,752 of these were fatal - make no mistake, keeping our highways and roads safe is still our most important job.

14/09/2021

Martin Duffy, chair of NYHighways, explains how North Yorkshire’s unitary council decision aims to strengthen highways provision in the area.

24/03/2021

Highways columnist Martin Duffy tell how being passionate about all things highways helps with his (other) three key positions in the sector.

30/07/2020

In order to help facilitate the next steps for LCRIG the Board asked me to join as CEO just about a month ago and of course, I was delighted to accept. After all, I thought ‘now all the hard work has been done…’ Not unexpectedly I was sadly wrong.

04/06/2020

While I’m pretty sure we are all fed up about listening to the continuous news about the effects of this damn virus I’m afraid we are only in chapter one of the story so there is still much more to unfold.

11/12/2019

The skills shortage has been on our radar in the construction industry for the past few years and during this time I’ve listened to numerous business leaders from within the highways sector talking about their plans to fill the gap. Are you making the contribution you should be to making the construction sector great again?

23/10/2019

Martin Duffy – director D2M2 - discusses safety and how we need to move the culture forwards beyond congratulatory PR and once a year training days, to self-regulating behaviours.

13/09/2019

Has 'innovation' simply become a meaningless buzzword? Martin Duffy – director of D2M2 - discusses how we can make real change happen.

20/08/2019

Martin Duffy, who moved on from Kier as collaboration and improvement director this summer and jointly set up highways and engineering consultancy D2M2, gives his expert, no holds barred, opinion on life building the open road.