About Us
Our Offices
From the Bay Area to New York, our national footprint puts Luster expertise within reach of every major infrastructure market.
Our Mission
To harness proven resources while implementing new, innovative methods for our clients, ensuring we consistently deliver in an ever-changing environment.
Our Vision
To be a value-add partner providing equitable and forward-thinking solutions.
Our Values
With over 30 years of experience, we foster collaborative work environments to ensure project solutions that exceed client expectations. Our mission and value statements, refined through years of industry involvement, are Professional Integrity, Client Focus, and Social Responsibility.
Client Focus
To provide our clients with the best possible Professional Services, using only the most competent, motivated and dedicated employees, in order to design solutions to meet their unique needs, in a timely and cost effective manner. “Mission First; People Always”
Professional Integrity
To maintain an organization that exhibits integrity, promotes diversity, and encourages teamwork and creativity; a firm that delivers exactly what is expected on each and every project.
Social Responsibility
To be exemplary social, environmental and cultural stewards in the communities where we are corporate citizens.
History
Orville Luster, father of Robert Luster and grandfather of Emily, Sarah, and John, served honorably in WWII as a U.S. Army first sergeant with the famed Red Ball Express, the largely African American convoy operation that kept Allied forces supplied across the European Theater. After the war, he settled in San Francisco, used the G.I. Bill to graduate from San Francisco State University, and became executive director of the nonprofit Youth for Service. There, Orville committed himself to young people whose only option seemed to be gang membership. Working alongside labor unions and public officials, he built workforce development programs that moved gang members off the street and into union jobs, college classrooms, or both.
Robert Luster followed his father into military service, earning a B.S. in General Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and serving 11 years as an Army infantry officer, completing his MBA at Long Island University along the way. After leaving active duty, Robert returned to the Bay Area, and in 1990 he and Orville founded Luster National.
For 33 years, Robert served as President, building the firm on his "can do" attitude and leading it through three decades of growth. Today it is the honor of the next generation, Emily, John, and Sarah, to carry forward the company their father and grandfather built.
