154 Regiment tours future HQ

Members of 154 (Scottish) Regiment Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) have been given a tour of their future headquarters.

The £9.6 million Army Reserve Centre (ARC) at Dunfermline (pictured above) is making significant progress and is on course to open in the summer.

Team 154 was able to look round the new-build project that includes a large, open-plan office space, drill hall, mess areas, industrial kitchen, bathrooms and shower rooms, transit accommodation, server and plant rooms.

The building will be heated by three high-efficiency air source heat pumps.

The latest progress follows setbacks caused by the discovery of hazardous materials during initial groundworks. Additional works were undertaken to ensure there was nothing else of a historical nature buried on the site. This meant scanning the ground, then removing and replacing all of the potentially contaminated soil.

The site was then backfilled to allow 350 piles to be driven into the foundations in February 2024. Work on pouring concrete for the foundations then began, with the building starting to rise out of the ground in April as blockwork was constructed above ground level. Steelwork was delivered to the site in early May with rapid progress being made on the main build since.

The Bruce House project had originally been due to get under way in March 2020. However COVID-19 hit and the national lockdown that followed halted all projects that weren’t already in progress.

In 2022 Henry Brothers won the contract to design and build the new ARC and demolish the existing Bruce House. Mott MacDonald is acting as the technical service provider, supporting the Highland RFCA Estates team. The project is Army-funded.

As well as serving as the Regimental Headquarters for 154 Regiment, the new ARC will also house 239 (Fife) Transport Squadron and the Dunfermline Detachment of The Black Watch Battalion Army Cadet Force.

The building will provide first-class facilities, allowing all the units housed there a chance to grow, and will impact positively on training, recruitment and retention.

Find out more about 154 (Scottish) Regiment RLC.