As the Tampa area’s tech hub grows, established area manufacturing solutions provider Jabil chose St. Petersburg for a global headquarters for its network of more than a quarter million employees.

The Gensler-designed, Skanska-built 170,000-sq-ft facility that resulted brings offices, labs, customer engagement space, support services and amenities to a 33-acre lakefront campus.

Technology permeated the construction process, too, as the team determined it could lower the building’s environmental impact by replacing typical curtainwall with Jabil-developed SageGlass, which tints itself in response to the sun, reducing heat loads and lowering energy consumption.

To find the most cost-effective approach, Skanska and Gensler analyzed multiple building enclosure options, changing glass type, revising metal panel specifications and more, achieving significant cost savings, like $2.8 million saved by the switch from cast-in-place concrete to structural steel.