Peter Petrich – Curriculum Vitae

• Birthdate: March 3, 1961
  
  

• 1981 graduation from the Higher Secondary School for Horticulture in Schönbrunn, Vienna.
  
  

• 1985 founded Biotop Landschaftsgestaltung GmbH.
  
  

• 1987 winner of the Conservation Award – Austrian prize for environmental protection featuring the idea of the natural pool as an ecological alternative to the chlorinated pool.
  
  

• 1996 graduation in landscape ecology and landscaping at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna. In his master thesis, he focused intensively on the topic of water quality in artificial bathing ponds.
  Numerous national and international lectures on the topic of water in the garden
  
  

• Since 1985 managing partner of the Biotop Landschaftsgestaltung GmbH. The company has 40 employees and specialises in the fields of design with water and especially the building of natural pools. Holder of several patents and winner of many prizes in the field of natural pool building. Biotop operates a license system in Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Great Britain and France. Together with the licensees, more than 3,000 Biotop Natural Pools have been built so far, 20 of these for public use.
  
  

• Last publication: co-author of the book “Schwimmteiche“, Callwey Publishing Company 2006 and co-author of the book “Les plus belles piscines écologiques“, Les Éditions Eugen Ulmer 2007

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