Consulting Engineer under Open Contract providing CM/Design Services to City Schools (all 1500 of them).

During the 10 day holiday, I have crews doing ACM removal , abatement, flashpatch and new VCT installation going on in 5 schools (my crews) plus the other 2 guys I work with each have 5 to 6 schools they cover.

My guys went in yesterday at 5 PM and set up the Abatement system (Showers, Air Evac, etc) and began sealing up rooms or hallways and tonight the demo guys hit it. Sunday we should be done with ACM removal/abatement and I'll do a walk thru and gove the go ahead for epoxy, flash patch and VCT installation and by next Sunday we should be ready for the kids on Monday 7 AM 1/4/2010.

This bunch is relatively easy, no major issues. Every once in a while we find a major problem (collapsed sub floor, termites, abandoned gas pipes, you name it) but (knock wood) I've always been able to open up on time.

Had a fire in a 1921 school last year on a Sat morning 6 AM. By 10 the Fire guys gave it back to us and I had 50 guys doing clean up, installing temporary doors in the stairs to close off the floor from the rest of the school, pulling down ceilings, skinning walls back to the terra cotta core, exposing all the floors and ceiling slabs and then I did the engineering inspection with the City DOB Chief and Board of Ed and OK'd structure...the BOE was finding class space for 300 kids and arrainging busses to take them from my school to whereever on Monday. We made it, I (and 50 of the hardest working micks in NYC) worked 48 straight hours but the school opened on time.

So yea, I'm on call...hopefully no one will pop a water pipe or an electric main or cause a fire-then I get to go the work.

No I don't get OT, just std Hourly in excess of base 40 hr salary.