Formerly known as Carastro, our renowned services are now part of the nationally recognized BSA brand. Rest assured, our clients and partners will continue to experience the unwavering quality and commitment they've come to expect from the Carastro team. Additionally, they will now have access to the cutting-edge design and technical expertise that BSA is renowned for. Explore the future of architecture, engineering, interior design, and planning at BSALifeStructures.com.

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Carastro and Associates has designed and engineered a multitude of diverse healthcare projects. Because healthcare demands a high level of design professionalism and expertise, our engineers maintain continued education in healthcare design and have years of experience working with the State of Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration as well as the Veteran’s Administration.

Our healthcare projects include cardiac surgery suites, diagnostic centers, interventional radiology rooms, hybrid operating rooms, cancer treatment facilities, outpatient surgery centers, intensive care units, labor and delivery rooms, laboratories, isolation rooms/wards, hospice facilities, medical offices, hospital data centers and central utility plants.

Moffitt Cancer Center Clinical Support Building

New construction, 8-story building at Moffitt Cancer Center at the USF campus, with two floors of clinical laboratory space and the balance of the floors contain office space. This project was a complete MEPF design for our firm, from design through construction administration, and included the following: Mechanical/HVAC: indoor central-station air-handling units; semi-custom indoor central-station […]

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St. Anthony’s Hospital Patient Tower and CEP

The 143,000 SF, 90-bed patient tower and central energy plant (CEP) included the addition of four stories built on top of the existing three-story building, which were brought to the shell for renovation. The new patient tower includes three additional surgical suites, pre-admission testing for surgical patients, non-invasive cardiology, new classrooms, inpatient dialysis, a cafeteria, […]

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St. Joseph’s Hospital Patient Tower

New construction six-story tower located at the BayCare St. Joseph’s Hospital Tampa main campus. The 90-bed patient tower includes two lobbies with a drive-up front entrance, waiting rooms, on-call rooms, and conference/classroom spaces. There are three patient care floors, each with 30 patient rooms per floor. The second and third floors house the mechanical support […]

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Moffitt McKinley Outpatient Center

Six-story, 207,000 SF project for Moffitt Cancer Center, includes a retail pharmacy, radiology services, patient library, and an arts and medicine center. The 2nd & 3rd floors will have an ambulatory surgery, breast clinic, breast imaging services. The 4th & 5th floors will have a cutaneous clinic, faculty offices, infusion rooms, a clinical research unit, […]

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St. Joseph’s Hospital Interventional Radiology

New three-story building to replace an existing Interventional Radiology facility. The first floor includes replacement of the IR lab and clinical support spaces, new ultrasound suite, CT, MRI and administrative support spaces. Second floor addition includes five new operating rooms with hybrid operating rooms and 20 bed prep/recovery suites. The third floor consists of a […]

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St. Joseph’s Hospital Central Energy Plant

New 12 Megawatt 15kV power generation plant and campus distribution system. Entire campus back up by two natural gas and four diesel generators with stored fuel for 96 hours of run time. Separate campus medium voltage loops for essential and normal power systems. Major electrical upgrades and replacement of switchgear and feeders within most campus […]

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James A. Haley VA Central Energy Plant

New 14 megawatt 15kV power generation plan and underground campus distribution system.  Separate campus medium voltage distribution and pad mounted switches for essential and normal power systems. Major electrical upgrades to multiple buildings including the addition of 9 unit substations, 16 transfer switches, distribution and branch circuit panels. Campus wide SCADA system with monitoring and […]

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BayCare Data Center

Data center and office building to support 9 major hospitals in Tampa Bay area.  Facility designed with redundant utility and generator power sources for 2N (A+B) emergency; and critical power systems.  Project included MDF room, Network Operation Center, Computer Room, Staging, UPS room and support spaces.  Complete environmental and power monitoring system with graphical web […]

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