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Automating the construction workplace: positioning and navigational factors.

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Automating the construction workplace: positioning and navigational factors. / Seward, Derek W.
In: Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management, Vol. 2, No. 3, 01.01.2002, p. 167-189.

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Seward, DW 2002, 'Automating the construction workplace: positioning and navigational factors.', Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 167-189. https://doi.org/10.1191/1471417502ci035oa

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Seward, D. W. (2002). Automating the construction workplace: positioning and navigational factors. Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management, 2(3), 167-189. https://doi.org/10.1191/1471417502ci035oa

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Seward DW. Automating the construction workplace: positioning and navigational factors. Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management. 2002 Jan 1;2(3):167-189. doi: 10.1191/1471417502ci035oa

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Seward, Derek W. / Automating the construction workplace: positioning and navigational factors. In: Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management. 2002 ; Vol. 2, No. 3. pp. 167-189.

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