Managing Principal and Co-Owner, Point Energy Innovations; BAE, Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Moussa was an early team member at Point Energy Innovations, founded in 2014; he took on co-ownership of the firm in 2023. As a teenager, he demolished kitchens for renovations, built stud walls and painted homes for his father’s small residential contracting business. After college, he took on roles with Boston-based consulting engineering firms like Syska Hennessy and WSP. He also worked on HVAC systems in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. He then moved to California, where he learned about energy conservation and management. A career highlight is the renovation and rapid decarbonization project at the 180,000-square-foot American Institute of Architects (AIA) headquarters, one of the first fully decarbonized large building renovations in the country. Moussa and his team upgraded the building’s façade and electrified the 50-year-old steam boiler system with air-source heat pumps. Moussa’s PEI team supported the low embodied carbon emission project design and developed a contractual relationship for the AIA to donate photovoltaic solar panels to Habitat for Humanity to offset the building’s remaining embodied carbon emissions. This enabled homeowners in surrounding communities to reduce their operating and living expenses while giving the institute credit for offsetting those carbon emissions. Other projects include the new construction of the 220,000-square-foot decarbonized operation Exelixis office headquarters, a model for low-cost, high-performance buildings and the efficiency and electrification evaluation of an international tech company building portfolio with over 5 million square feet. Moussa and his wife are lifelong soccer players and now cheer on their two kids at soccer games. They attend every home game of the NWSL San Francisco Bay Area Football Club. Moussa enjoys cooking and is an avid coffee roaster.
