The University commissioned EYP for the 2008 Campus Master Plan update study. Located in an historic residential area in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Chatham University is the alma mater of Rachel Carson and an early signatory to the Presidents Climate Commitment.

Near-term proposals for the core campus focus on sustainability. Featured proposals included: access enhancements, energy saving measures, intensified building reuses and space reallocations, as well as a focused program for landscape refurbishment across the arboretum campus. Campus planning studies undertook a complete update of the campus space inventory database and an intensive utilization analysis of all instructional space. The resulting plan established the magnitude of space required for relocation of graduate programs to a satellite location within a nearby urban redevelopment district, a strategic initiative to advance graduate programs and the institution's profile. The plan also identified locations for new buildings and additions for the long-term development of the Woodland Road campus.

EYP had previously completed the first capital project identified in the prior campus plan of 1997 - the renovation and addition to Buhl Hall Science Building. Originally built in 1930, and renovated in 1966, Buhl Hall is sited at one edge of an Olmsted Brothers-designed quadrangle with a panoramic view of the northern Pittsburgh skyline.

EYP has also designed advanced multi-media instructional spaces in other buildings on the Chatham campus.