REC is a French architecture firm founded in 2001. The group came together with patience as architects and engineers met over time, sharing a certain vision of architecture and the wish to design and carry out exciting and varied projects. REC architecture currently includes fifty employees on three different sites: Toulouse Blagnac, Albi and Paris.

TransPod works with REC regarding the infrastructure, the station design as well as the pod design. Project teams are set up on both sides of the Atlantic to carry out this innovative project effectively with the right engineering assessment.

Research work at the Institute of Research for Ceramics – IrCer – is devoted to the transformations of matter involved in processing in bulk ceramics and processing used in surface treatment. The laboratory activities are situated at the intersection of material science – mostly ceramics – and process engineering. The institute brings together 200 members including CNRS scientists, academics of the University of Limoges (France) specialized in chemistry, physics and mechanics of ceramic based materials, physics of plasma processing as well as engineers, technicians and administrative staff. The institute hosts its own material characterization center CARMALIM (CARactérisation des Matériaux de LIMoges) which covers all the requirements for research.