BridgeGap

About

A Florida contractor led by a builder and a controller

BridgeGap For Builders, LLC is an active Florida LLC holding certified general contractor license CGC1541464.

Leadership

Kayla Bugbee

Founder & CEO

Kayla founded BridgeGap and leads the company. She brings more than fifteen years of construction administration and financial accounting with general contractors and subcontractors.

A former Controller who rebuilt an accounting department: hiring and training staff, writing procedures, and fixing cash flow. She runs payroll, tax filings, HR, pay applications, lien releases, compliance and job costing, and works in ComputerEase, QuickBooks, Procore, Autodesk Build, Textura, GCPay and Bluebeam.

15+years in construction accounting
200+active projects tracked in the WIP report
$400Kmonthly card spend reconciled

Andrew Watson

President & Qualifying Agent

Andrew leads construction operations and holds the company's license. He has more than fifteen years in multifamily and student housing, managing portfolios and regions of active projects through every phase of the building lifecycle, from preconstruction through closeout.

He has coordinated directly with lenders, insurers, design teams and ownership from land acquisition through permanent financing, and has designed and run AI-assisted back-office systems for a multi-project portfolio.

15+years in multifamily and student housing
CGCFlorida certified general contractor

Track record

Delivered, not proposed

21projects
7states
5,518apartment units
$775Mconstruction cost

Andrew Watson's career record with prior employers, across multifamily, student housing and hospitality, delivered as Construction Manager, Project Manager, Owner's Representative and construction executive. Construction cost and 6.2 million gross square feet cover the 17 projects with direct cost responsibility.

The name

Each timber bears on the next

Engraved study sheet of Leonardo's self-supporting bridge under the BridgeGap For Builders wordmark, with notes on the bridge, the principle and the firm

Ponte autoportante, after Leonardo da Vinci, Codex Atlanticus.

Leonardo drew a timber span that uses no nails, no dowels and no rope. Beams of like size are laid so each one bears on the next, and the whole is held by its own weight. Ogni legno regge l'altro: every timber holds up the other.

BridgeGap For Builders applies the same principle to the building trade. On every project, developers, contractors and subcontractors are the timbers of the span: each carries the others, and none stands alone. BridgeGap lays the footing they rest on, so the span stands on its own.

Credentials

Licensed, certified and recognized

Licenses and certifications

  • Florida Certified General Contractor, CGC1541464
  • Procore Certified Associate
  • OSHA 10-Hour
  • FAA Part 107 drone license

Recognition and education

  • ABC First Coast Project Manager of the Year, 2015
  • ABC First Coast and National ABC Multi-Family Project of the Year, 2016
  • B.S. Building Construction, University of North Florida

The license can be verified on the Florida DBPR license lookup.