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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
Pruning water lilies
Claudia Schwarzer2019-10-23T14:43:43+01:00In autumn some of our customers are concerned with the water lilies. The same plants that enchant us with their splendid beauty during the summer no longer show many leaves, no flowers but many yellow leaves. At this time of year the plants are preparing to hibernate, huddling at the bottom of the lake [...]
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 [...]
Renovation of swimming ponds
Claudia Schwarzer2019-09-29T13:12:26+01:00For more than two decades there have been biological pools in Portugal. Not surprisingly, some of the older ones deserve a new face or any kind of rejuvenation. Even if the biological treatment system works well, there may be reasons for rigorous pruning of plants, creating a new entrance or different access, a waterfront [...]
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 [...]
Eco house with biological pool
Claudia Schwarzer2019-08-01T11:08:00+01:00As part of the course in civil construction at Gustave Eiffel Professional School in Lisbon, this model of an eco-house was born. The author of the work, Tomás Couto, is a student of this professional school and focused on his work to show the most sustainable and ecological practices. Because "thinking green is thinking [...]