A Place Where Dogging It Is The Company Policy

When Mychele Lord was looking for a new headquarters for Lord Green, her Dallas based, sustainable building consultancy, one determining factor was finding a spot that would accommodate seven of her most important team members. Not the 17 humans, but the seven canines that report to work with them regularly.

- Tom Foster

Lord Green had outgrown its previous space in a mid-rise office building, and Lord says she wanted something that allowed “more autonomy, where we could do our own thing.” She found it last spring in a one­story midcentury building in residential Northeast Dallas that looks more like a groovy orange­walled house than an office. “It was totally plug and play,” she says. “We just drove our computers over one day, plugged in, and that was it.”

Well, almost. Those dogs needed a place to run, so she had a fence built around the property’s shady front yard. The ventilation system was tweaked to provide more fresh air if needed by dogs or humans.