Our tour guide for the Novus International headquarters building today was Don Vondriska, Director of Business Development , pictured on the left here speaking to attendees. As I’ve reported before when covering the facility grand opening, this is a LEED Platinum certified building and very unique. Don took us around and show how they’ve designed with the environment and employees in mind. Everything is open so you can see outside from just about anywhere. The staff leaders have the same size cubicles as everyone else. For those in labs downstairs, there are special pipes that bring sunlight into their work areas. Don says the design really helps with teamwork and collaboration. You’ll hear some chickens in the background because after the office/lab area we walked to an adjacent building where the company conducts some animal research on a small scale.

Don says they brought media in to help us better understand the diversity of products and science basis of the company. He sees future growth in a lot of different species and science based products that will include equine, companion animals and even humans.

Novus International Media Day Photo Album

You can listen to my interview with Don here: