Profile: Robert Benaim

This month's letters consider professional indemnity insurance and sole practitioners, the potential to lower carbon through lower floor loadings, and the recent President's Inaugural Address, among other topics.

This concise book can provide a valuable reference source to structural engineers designing, executing and maintaining steel structures.

Roma Agrawal is using her rarity as a young, female engineer to front campaigns on television, in the papers and on billboards that raise the profile of an engineering career. More professionals should do the same, she tells Jackie Whitelaw.