Charles Clifton

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Charles Clifton is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Auckland. He is a former Senior Structural Engineer with HERA (Heavy Engineering Research Association), where he promoted the efficient and effective use of structural steel in buildings and conducted and coordinated research in structural steel, composite construction, fire engineering and durability. Associate Professor Clifton’s PhD was awarded in 2005; its principal outcome was two new forms of semi-rigid beam to column connections for moment-resisting steel frames which are now used in a number of high profile New Zealand buildings.