Blog / Chuck Roberts

Ribbon Cutting at Village Hill

Published November 21, 2011 in Community, Historic, Staff, Aelan Tierney, Chuck Roberts, Sustainability

Northampton Acting Mayor David Narkewicz (above, left), Wright Builders' Jonathan Wright (center), and Mass Development's Nancy Howard (above, right) were in attendance at the recent ribbon-cutting for Village Hill Northampton. 

More information about the event and photos are available from The Daily Hampshire Gazette.

Think Smaller

Published November 7, 2011 in Modern Design, Publications, Staff, Chuck Roberts, Rachael Chase, Sustainability

KRA's Chuck Roberts and Rachael Chase are featured in this month's Preview Massachusetts where they discuss the value of designing and building smaller homes.

Tasting our first SIP

Published August 26, 2011 in Retail, Staff, Chuck Roberts, Rachael Chase

A few of us were lucky enough to stop by SIP's house-warming event this morning.  The food and coffee are great, and the space feels wonderful! 

SIP will open officially on Monday, August 29.

Me House

Published June 28, 2011 in Staff, Chuck Roberts, Sustainability

The "Me House" (aka The Scapes Model Energy House) is a collaboration between our firm and Scapes Builders of Deerfield, MA. 

The house incorporates our knowledge and enthusiasm for energy efficient technology into a marketable yet flexible speculative design that will appeal to wide range of potential home buyers.  The house takes advantage of a super insulated envelope which reduces the size of heating and cooling equipment and greatly lowers energy costs. It is designed so that it can be built on sites with differing angles of solar exposure and still accommodate PV or thermal panels.

Super energy efficient houses don’t have to look all wonky and don’t have to cost more to build that standard construction!

Charles Roberts

Signing the Steel at UMASS

Published August 10, 2010 in Education, Institutional, Modern Design, Staff, Chuck Roberts, Elizabeth Morgan

Sometimes, it’s okay to write your name on a building.

KRA’s Elizabeth Morgan, AIA, and Chuck Roberts, AIA, and Patricia O’Flaherty from Eastern General Contractors recently made their mark on a steel beam for the UMass Marching Band Building.

The beam will soon show signatures of all those involved – clients, contractors, designers, engineers – to pay homage to all the hard work that went into the design & construction of the building.