Heathpoint House, Project Completion

27 October 2025

Last week, Eckersley O’Callaghan celebrated the completion of Heathpoint House in Camden, located near Gospel Oak train station.

The new 3-storey private residential home situated on the site of a former Brick Works is constructed from a combination of reclaimed masonry, timber stud walls and steel framing, all atop concrete ground beams supported on 300mm diameter piles. EOC provided structural and civil engineering services on this constrained corner site.

To ensure the building’s lateral resistance, the house is framed with a combination of masonry cavity walls as well as timber stud walls with a masonry outer leaf. In addition, a goalpost steel frame is integrated at the back of the house, carefully engineered to accommodate a large glass pane more than 5m tall, boasting a rich amount of light into the living room and kitchen spaces.

Inside the house, typical floor framing is composed of timber floor joists with steel floor beams added for longer spans. At rooftop level, joists were carefully arranged to support the heavy loads from the green roof and house the rooftop skylights.

Desktop studies and subsequent soil investigations revealed that the ground was comprised of made ground to about 7m below the surface. To overcome the poor soil conditions, the building is found on reinforced concrete ground beams supported on 300mm diameter piles more than 10m in length, made difficult by the site access, shape of the plot and neighbouring building.