Ian Byrne

Welcome to Ian Byrne's web index. Ian is a Chartered Environmentalist and Chartered Accountant living in Milton Keynes, England. The websites that Ian is most associated can be found at:

ibeccs - Ian Byrne Energy & Carbon Consultancy Services
ibeccs logo Ian runs a specialist consultancy focusing on providing high quality advice to small organisations on energy and carbon management, including carbon footprinting and the creation of net zero transition plans. Ian can provide high level support on climate mitigation actions, such as improving energy efficiency, behavioural change and the integration of small-scale renewable energy. Ian is highly active in international standardization, and was convenor for the working groups that wrote ISO 50047 Determination of Energy Savings in Organizations, and ISO 14068-1 Carbon Neutrality, and chairs the BSI Mirror Committee on climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (SES/1/7). He was also the technical author for the BSI Flex 3030 Net Zero Transition Plans which is particularly useful for SMEs (and currently available as a free download!

Before establishing his own business in 2018, Ian was Deputy Chief Executive of the National Energy Foundation, a leading independent UK Charity for sustainable energy and improving the use of energy in buildings.

For more information on Ian's professional activities, please visit his LinkedIn profile.

Ian's interest in sustainable energy and concern around climate change developed from an early fascination with the history of the retail petroleum industry and how it has been marketed. Coupled with a lifelong love of maps, Ian also maintains a hobby site looking at road maps issued by petrol and oil companies. Although it's not being updated as much as it should be, while Ian has been writing a PhD in the same topic, so is not very mobile-friendly (it's now 25 years since the site started), it is still the most comprehensive resource on the subject.

Petrol Maps
This is the main English Language site looking at European Road Maps issued by Petrol & Oil Companies since 1904. It has over 2,000 map images and charts this rarely studied branch of commercial cartography from the earliest days of motoring, when companies were keen to encourage motorists to drive further, to the present date, when some companies are beginning to take on board the notion of sustainability.

Sundials have been used for telling the time and the date for more than 5000 years. The shadows cast by rods fixed on buildings or stuck into the ground were observed and their differing positions throughout the day marked. From its small workshop in Somerton, Somerset, David Brown Sundials will design and craft a unique yet functional dial to your specification. Each sundial is specially calibrated to work at a particular latitude and longitude; the path of the shadow can be calculated for any given date, and so birthdays, anniversaries or other significant dates can be marked on these unique timepieces. This website also includes a plan for making a simple sundial that can be downloaded.

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