In a recent McKinsey survey of 400 construction industry CxOs, 87 per cent said that skilled labour was becoming increasingly scarce and expensive, and almost half said this will impact the whole industry in the next year (1)
Nothing lasts forever, including – and perhaps especially – highways. One fine example of this is a 21km section of the original 580km Pennsylvania Turnpike in the US state of Pennsylvania.
As the video shows, vegetation, animals and cyclists have slowly been reclaiming part of what was hailed as an engineering masterpiece when it was opened in 1940.
It caught all the cyclists by surprise when a young bounding kangaroo decided to hurl itself at the peloton during a bicycle race in Australia.
A fellow racer trailing behind took the video. The targeted cyclist was severely bruised from hitting the deck and he needed stitches. But the marauding kangaroo apparently died from its injuries when it slammed into the bike at a right angle.
Cyclists being taken out by kangaroos is more common than most non-Australians would think. Click here to see one cycl
