The steel frame is up at the Frome Medical Centre.

The site of the new primary care centre is on Frome showground adjacent to Frome Community Hospital.  The new building will provide 4,500m2 serving the primary health care needs of up to 32,000 patients, and accommodating a local GP surgery, minor surgery suite and training/teaching facility.  In addition the building will contain a pharmacy, dentist and optician.

The medical practice, one of the largest in the country, will be designed to provide a series of spaces on a scale to provide a more intimate approach whilst still providing a wide range of services.  The new building will recreate the ‘joined up’ working relationship and complete the concept of Frome Health Park.

Clarkebond is commissioned as civil, highway and structural engineers in the development of the site advising and providing design to the site to manage the impact of the ‘public open space’ status of the site and develop a building that contributes to its environment positively in the design of a green, low carbon facility that integrates with its locality and inspires its users.