Johnston Vidal Projects is a craft-oriented pool & landscape design-build firm that believes that beautiful and important projects are best created through open dialogue, intense organization, deep technical understanding and old-fashioned honesty.
Our dynamic and multi-faceted team excels and performs most highly amidst the daily challenges with which we are faced. Pool & landscape construction is an incredible profession in that it involves a magical mix of technical rigidity, botanical artistry, strong organizational abilities and an open heart and mind. JVP embraces the chaotic nature of construction with clarity and focus - this approach is exactly what allows us to build strong projects and long-term relationships. We are highly cognizant of how disturbing construction can be to a family and their home life and we strive to make the experience as stress-free as possible for all involved, particularly the client.
We are both proud and humbled to simultaneously be building some of the most technically challenging and culturally important landscapes, pools and exterior spaces in Southern California.
Chad Johnston - Partner
With 20 years of experience in the landscape design and construction field, Chad is truly at home in the garden. Chad is a California native who spent his formative years on a 50,000 acre almond and cattle ranch in Central California, where he developed a love for landscape.
After starting his own landscape company in 2006 in Southern California, Chad began to get requests for pools and sought out Ivan Vidal as he needed someone with a strong, structural understanding of that world. Johnston Vidal Projects was formed and has since grown into a well-respected firm, consistently delivering a beautiful, finished product that clients can truly appreciate.
Chad oversees all design, client relations & branding for JVP.
Ivan Vidal - Partner
Inspired by a family of engineers, architects, and entrepreneurs, Ivan sought to meld all three into a fulfilling career at an early age. After graduating high school, already running a successful landscape business, he pursued to broaden and expand his business operations through education. Ivan studied civil engineering, business, law, and finance at Cal State University Northridge. After 20 years of experience as a general contractor and with swimming pool, landscape construction, & photo-voltaic license classifications under his belt, Ivan decided to join forces with Chad Johnston to combine and refine their respective talents and expertise; culminating in the formation of Johnston Vidal Projects- an all inclusive design build firm of high-end residential and commercial swimming pool and landscape projects.
Nearing 25 years in the field, continuing his passion for the outdoors, and enjoying the reward of conquering the challenges of construction posed by difficult site conditions, imaginative design, and all else construction comes with - it is the satisfaction of delivering a final product that is admired by industry peers, sought by architectural professionals, and lovingly enjoyed by clients and their families that keeps him fueled for the next coming project.