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Udo2019-11-13T20:08:50+00:00We are receiving a lot of positive feedback to our projects. The testimonies come from clients of different nationalities. Some are placed on our website. You may have a look here. home / news
November 2019
October 2019
International congress
Udo2019-09-29T13:13:51+01:00This year, Warsaw in Polone was the venue for the international congress on biological pools. Claudia & Udo Schwarzer, the designers of Bio Piscinas, Lda. actively participated with presentations on this event. Following a proposal from Grupo Ibérico de águas balneares com tratamento biológico GIABN, the association of professionals on biological pools in the Iberian [...]
September 2019
International award
Udo2019-09-29T12:52:12+01:00Another PONDY AWARD of IOB in 2019! For the third time, Bio Piscinas, Lda. won the prestigious international award at the International Congress on Biologically Treated Swimming Pools of IOB, which this year celebrated its 10th edition in Warsaw, Poland. Our biological pool has won in the “natural pool” category. We are very grateful [...]
Next generation
Udo2019-09-01T09:07:45+01:00There are frogs everywhere! Little frogs, even very small frogs still with a little tail, remnant of the time of her previous aquatic life as a tadpole. Late summer is the time for the next generation of frogs and there are people who think that the population of frogs in a biological pool will [...]
It is also a biological pool
Udo2019-09-01T09:07:14+01:00Nowadays, the design of a biological pool can be very similar to a conventional pool. I does not have to remind you on a pond of plants. In English-speaking countries there is a special expression for this type of biological pool: natural pool or natural swimming pool. The shape can be even very architectural, [...]
Bladderworts in the swimming pond
Udo2019-09-01T09:07:00+01:00This very beautiful flowering delicate plant is called bladderwort or Utricularia. It is an unusual plant on the large species list for biological pools. A floating plant that never has roots is usually not very suitable for use in a biological pool because it could appear in the bathing area. But in certain biological pool [...]
August 2019
Nominees to PONDY AWARD
Udo2019-08-02T09:55:57+01:00IOB's PONDY AWARD (International Organization for Natural Bathing Water) is the prestigious design award for bio-treated pools. Every two years, participants in the international congress on pools with biological treatment choose the best projects in four categories: public, tourist swimming pools, biopools, and biologically treated private swimming pools. In each category three projects are [...]
June 2019
Take a shower!
Udo2019-06-30T11:36:54+01:00Taking showers before taking a bath in the pool is absolutely necessary. Whoever refuses to use the shower before entering the pool contributes significantly to the contamination of the water and the consequences of hygiene problems. Based on information from an article in the Science section of the German magazine DER SPIEGEL, a non-negligible [...]
Nature-based solution
Udo2019-06-30T11:36:18+01:00We are proud to announce that IUCN is considering natural swimming ponds as Nature-based solution. The International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development [...]
PB.15.000
Udo2019-06-30T11:35:51+01:00Already know that a natural swimming pool can cost less than a conventional pool with tiles and machine house? Our only pre-configured biological pool is called PB.15.000 and has a total area of about 130 m2 with a bathing area of approximately 45 m2. It costs only 15,000 Euro plus VAT, all inclusive, minus [...]