Engineering is for everyone, not just for men, according to a national campaign looking to encourage more people to enter the industry.

Engineers have warned that coastal and riverside communities are in for more flood damage as cash- strapped local authorities struggle to provide adequate protections.

Over half of engineering CEOs believe that a sustainable economic recovery will happen by 2013, according to research carried out by Ipsos MRBI. Just over a quarter believe that this will happen in 2012.