Next up!
Managing Indoor Spaces During High Heat Events
Session Moderators: William Hansen, P.E. and Rebecca Lincoln, Sc.D.
Thursday, June 18 2026
3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. (Eastern)
How it works:
When you register for an IAQ Club Session, not only will you get access to a video and/or audio presentation* from a past education event, you’ll also be able to attend an informal discussion forum** with the original presenter or other knowledgeable moderator. You’ll find the forums fun, informative, and personal. Each session encourages lively discussion of the scheduled topic (and sometimes other related issues!) Participants can ask moderators and each other questions about current projects and challenges. Each session ends with a fun, interactive trivia quiz. You might win a MIAQC hoodie or t-shirt!
*Like a book club, it is recommended, but not required, that you watch the video or listen to the audio prior to the discussion forum, as it is not shown during the forum itself.
**IAQ Club forums are held via Zoom.
Cost:
Participation in the IAQ Club is free for members in good standing (dues current) of the Maine Indoor Air Quality Council, and just $25 for nonmembers. All participants get advance access to the recorded education session, as well as entry into the live, discussion forum for that topic.
About this month’s featured recording:
(This month’s featured presentation was created in August of 2025. The recording is 60 minutes in length.)
Several times a year, Maine experiences extreme heat events (days when the maximum daily temperature exceeds 90 degrees F.) Many, but not all, buildings in Maine have cooling systems to lower temperatures to acceptable levels in hot weather. This one-hour webinar will provide employers, building owners, and facility managers with practical guidance for how to prevent heat-related illness and reduced productivity in building occupants when extreme temperatures outdoors create the risk for extreme temperatures indoors.
The program is designed for those who manage both unconditioned spaces (without summertime mechanical cooling) and/or conditioned spaces, as well as those responsible for creating guidance for vulnerable populations, and treating those with heat-related symptoms. Discussion will include managing spaces during emergency events, such as power outages.
The session is designed to be engaging and interactive. Be prepared to ask your questions and get answers to address your specific space concerns during high heat events.
What You’ll Learn:
- How the Maine CDC and other local, regional, and national entities create and distribute extreme heat alerts, and where you can go to find them
- How to calculate an indoor heat index, and how to use it to guide actions during a high heat event.
- The symptoms of heat-related illness, and how to address them
- General strategies for managing indoor spaces during high heat events (based on MIAQC’s own guidance: Managing Indoor Environments During High Heat Events – Maine Indoor Air Quality Council)
- Tips and tricks used by seasoned facility managers to manage their indoor spaces to protect the health of their occupants
Who Should Attend:
- Occupants of indoor spaces
- School facilities personnel
- School policy decision makers (principals, school board members, superintendents)
- Day care providers
- Long term care providers
- Health professionals (physicians and nurses, local health officers)
- Municipal representatives (city personnel, fire departments, emergency responders)
- Public health representatives
- Employers and directors of workers
About the Presenters and June IAQ Club Moderators:
William Hansen, P.E., Facilities Director, Windham/Raymond Schools, Windham ME
Bill Hansen, P.E. is the Director of Facilities at RSU #14 Windham Raymond Schools where he is responsible for managing 600,000 square feet of educational building space, a wastewater treatment plant, and all school properties. The nine buildings range in age from 3 years old to 78 years old. Bill has been in this role for the last sixteen years and previously worked 20 years for S. D. Warren/Sappi Fine Papers in Facilities, Process, and Project Engineering. His educational background includes a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a Certificate in Pulp and Paper Management from the University of Maine at Orono.
Rebecca Lincoln, Sc.D., Maine CDC, Augusta, ME
Rebecca Lincoln, Sc.D. is an Environmental Epidemiologist and the Acting Manager of the Environmental Health Program at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, where she specializes in exposure assessment, climate change, heat and health, environmental health surveillance, private well water quality issues, metals, and PFAS. She serves as the Principal Investigator for several federal grants that support Maine CDC’s work to promote private well water testing; provide free private well water test kits to low-income Mainers; better understand the impacts of climate change on water quality and other aspects of public health; and summarize and make available data on private well water quality, usage, and testing rates. She holds a doctorate in Environmental Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Continuing Education Credits:
| BPI | Approved for 1.0 credits, Course #24801 |
| AIHA/ABIH | Self-Submit with Certificate of Attendance |
| PE - Professional Engineers | Self-Submit with Certificate of Attendance |
| USGBC | Self-Submit with Certificate of Attendance |
| BOC | Self-Submit with Certificate of Attendance |
| CEO | Submitted |
| AIA | Approved for 1 LU credit |
