Our Idea

We choose to build creatively, constructively, and with purpose for our clients, ourselves, and our community. This fundamental philosophy is born from a sense of place that permeates our approach not just to business, but life entirely.

We have passions for art, engineering, and sustainability (among others). This leads us to work particularly within the world of renewable energy and green building, but generally with companies that express environmental responsiveness or enliven our local community of Ithaca, New York. It also makes us maddeningly attentive to detail and sincerely interested in the success of our clients.

Sunnywood Designs is the aegis under which we ply our trades.

The Evolution

Sunnywood officially formed in July 2000 as a continuation of work started at the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology. Sunnywood began as a sole proprietorship for Liz and Eric Woods. By 2005 we chose to expand our business, having successfully merged with one of our collaborators, Deviron. In considering how to manage growth, we pursued the idea of becoming worker cooperative. But outside forces led us back to our roots and in 2008 we were presented with an unexpected opportunity to join a long-time client, Performance Systems Devleopment. Since that time we have led design and software development at PSD and maintained Sunnywood as a specialty shop for client web development.