Development of Sustainable Design Index for Office Furniture Design and its CAD-Based Implementation

Abstract

Sustainable design is a universal concern and due to that it becomes significant reference in numerous industries especially furniture products. In order to overcome the difficulties in Furniture Industry to determine the sustainable design to their products, the concept of Sustainable Design Index (SDI) was proposed in this paper. The SDI construction is combined with the designer’s daily activities and the design process, in this research the open plan system (OPS) is used for the subject matter. This paper presents several design tools and strategies which are integrated to support the development of sustainable design index as a solution. It is important to develop a model or method for formulating the SDI for industry to work with particularly the product’s sustainability performance strongly linking to the consumer’s satisfaction. In order to develop a robust SDI representation, an innovative approach for structured and systematic sustainable furniture design is proposed mainly based on modular product architecture, reconfigurability, using design structure matrix (DSM) and axiomatic design (AD). The SDI implementation is to enhance the designer by seamlessly integrating SDI algorithms within the CAD design environment and designers’ design operations.

Integration of Environmental Issues in Axiomatic Design to Pursue Sustainable Products

“…Seyajah et al [6] proposed the concept of a Sustainable Design Index (SDI) for structured and systematic furniture design, based on modular product architecture supported by a design structure matrix (DSM) and AD, integrated into a CAD environment.…”

3D Model Reconstruction from Two Orthographic Views using Fuzzy Surface Analysis

“…"Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." A review of papers suggests that sustainable development indicators are divided into three main categories: social, environmental and economic (Hatakeyama, 2018;Seyajah et al, 2014;Shaaban and Scheffran, 2017) and each category contains several sub-indicators as an example is shown in Figure 15.…”