landscapeexperience
Project Luong is a firm committed to raising the bar for design services across disciplines. We are a team of architects, landscape architects, interior designers, graphic designers, and construction administrators. Our combined knowledge of design, project management and construction allows us to bring insightful perspectives to the people we serve and unique design solutions to the projects we work on.
In the Houston market for design services, Project Luong adds value through the diverse strengths of our people, the client focused nature of our approach, our technological efficiencies, and our inherent drive to create great work.
> People – are our greatest asset. We ensure our clients have the best suited team for their project by investing heavily in the professional development of all staff. As a multidisciplinary firm, we are able to draw on the unique backgrounds and knowledge that each member brings and believe we are collectively stronger than the sum of our parts.
> Approach – We are first and foremost people oriented with a bent towards loving and continually improving the design process. Our approach is to listen first to client needs and desires and then to problem solve how we make those a reality. This regularly involves thinking outside the lanes of our individual professions to understand how designs function as a whole at a system level. This thinking we believe allows us to bring clients fully informed design solutions.
> Efficiencies – Our firm utilizes the latest technology and software programs to provide accurate and efficient design. Our understanding of the design process has allowed us to make efficient use of our time and workflows. While we can produce high quality 3D renderings and visualizations, these are informed by thoughtful hand studies of design and can be sketched upon in a pinch to reflect client feedback.
> Creative Drive – Is the why we do what we do. We are focused on the craftsmanship of the design product, while striving to continually learn and bring more to the process. Each project is an opportunity to showcase what we can bring to the human story of the built environment.
Project Luong is dedicated to creating great spaces. In doing this, we strive to provide solutions that meet client’s budget, schedule and design intent and we welcome the opportunity to create these spaces together.
Sincerely,
Principal | Project Luong Architects, LLC emily.luong@projectluong.com c +1 571 212 4165
Relevant Team Experience
SCHOOL WORK
Tomball High School 3 - Tomball ISD- Tomball TX *
Complete the landscape architecture design and construction package for the new Tomball High School 3
Splendora Junior High School - Splendora ISD - Splendora TX *
Complete the landscape architecture design and construction package for the new Splendora Junior High School Peach Creek Elementary - Splendora ISD - Splendora TX *
Complete the landscape architecture design and construction package for the new Peach Creek Elementary Greenleaf Elementary School - Splendora ISD - Splendora TX *
Complete the landscape architecture design and construction package for the new Greenleaf Elementary School
Montgomery County Agricultural and Life Sciences Building Montgomery TX *
Complete the landscape architecture design and construction for the new Agricultural and Life Sciences Building Lake Creek High School Courtyard Renovation - Montgomery ISD - Montgomery County TX*
Complete the landscape architecture design and construction of a fenced in outdoor seating area with hardscape and synthetic turf adjacent to the cafeteria
Sheldon 9th and 10th Grade Center - Sheldon ISD - Houston TX *
Complete the landscape architecture design and construction package for the new Sheldon 9th and 10th Grade Center
RECREATION AND AMENITY
FB MUD 124 Recreation and Fishing Park - Katy TX *
FB MUD 185 Street-scape Improvements - Katy TX *
HC MUD 391 Trail Improvements - Cypress TX *
McCrary Meadows Recreation Center, Splash-pad Park, Entry Monument, Landscape, Trails and Fencing - Ventana DevelopmentRichmond TX *
Trails of Katy Recreation Center, Entry Monument Landscape, Trails and Fencing - Ventana Development - Katy TX *
Briarwood Crossing Community Playground and Splah-pad, Entry Monument Landscape, Fencing and Trails- Woodmere Development - Pleak TX *
Briarhills Community Playground - Briarhills POA - Houston TX
The Meadows at Telge David Weekley - Cypress TX *
Addicks Reserve - David Weekley - Houston TX *
Long Meadow Farms - Pool, Recreation Center and streetscape - Richmond TX *
MUNICIPAL WORK
Wayne Gray Sports Complex - City of Baytown - Baytown, TX *
Sam Forse Collins Park - The Sabine River Authority Burkeville, TX *
The Houston Zoo Reflection Pool Renovations - The Houston Zoo - Houston TX *
The Japanese Gardens Pathway Renovations - Herman Park Conservancy - Houston TX *
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emily.luong@projectluong.com
CERTIFICATIONS
Registered Landscape Architect - Texas #2996
Outdoor Learning Environments Certification
TxDot Precertification
EMILY CHISHOLM LUONG, PLA Principal
The design and construction process, involves balancing multiple viewpoints and working efficiently to deliver a successful project. At Project Luong this process is ultimately a person first approach that seeks to understand clients and community needs before offering a design response. We are also able to leverage our collective design knowledge and experiences to bring diverse perspective to project needs. As principal of landscape architecture at Project Luong I am thrilled by this challenge and strive to find unique ways to connect people to their environments and the world around them.
EDUCATION
Master of Landscape Architecture, Virginia Tech Bachelor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
HOW ARCHITECTURE INFLUENCES PEOPLE
AFFILIATIONS
Association for Learning Enviroments
Architecture is the original influencer. The Greeks and Romans understood this to a degree never seen again. What we design impacts generations of individuals -- actively and passively -- that interact with our buildings. Understanding that responsibility is a truly humbling force and one that drives us to use every opportunity to Create Better Architecture.
GREAT PEOPLE DOING MORE
Project Luong is a growing firm of landscape architects, architects, interior designers, and administrators who understand that delivering a successful project begins well before planning and design.
Based in Houston and San Antonio, Texas, and Santa Monica, California, our diverse team has more than ten decades of combined multidisciplinary experience across many project classes, including community, retail, commercial, municipal, aviation, higher education, corporate, healthcare, recreational, and multi- and single-family residential. On each and every project, we strive to create ease and cohesion throughout project start-up, execution, and close out. We stand behind our work, and our designs aim to clarify, align, and respond to our clients’ visions, missions, and goals. When we reach your goals, we reach ours.
RELIABLE MWBE PARTNER
Project Luong is a small firm offering architecture, graphic design, landscape architecture, interior design, and planning services with an outstanding diverse team that makes a large impact. Our firm’s leadership is dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace by promoting minority, women, and LGBTQ employees, cultivating flexibility for remote work and floating holidays, and providing paid family leave for both mothers and fathers, an almost unheard-of benefit within the industry. With the majority of employees being women and/or minorities, this diverse workforce allows us to bring a variety of perspectives and experiences to the design process and better serve the communities and clients we work with.
As a firm led by a Vietnamese American and a woman, Project Luong is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by the City of Houston, City of Austin, South Central Texas Regional Certification Agency (SCTRCA), and North Central Texas Regional Certification Agency (NCTRCA). The firm is also a certified Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) with the State of Texas. We are certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
A FIRM COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY WITH…
73% MINORITY EMPLOYEES
50% WOMEN EMPLOYEES
…DIVERSE EXPERIENCES INFORMING OUR DESIGN
We are certified as a minority-owned business and HUB throughout the State of Texas as well as a Disadvantageed Business Enterprise through the US Depeartment of Transportation.
