ABOUT US
Our Legacy
George R. Ivany, our founder, fled his native Hungary at the end of World War II and emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1949, he restarted his career with the goal of providing a good life for his family, believing that “the good Lord helps.”
Ivany spent his first two years in America as a construction laborer, learning English as he worked his way up. However, with his advanced degrees in mathematics, physics and engineering, he was already thinking about how he could improve the very concrete blocks he used on the job.
Ivany soon joined major structural engineering firms, then started his own. In his spare time, he began developing his revolutionary new block design – the Ivany® Block.
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the Ivany® Block System
We have partnered with many trusted manufacturers who are licensed to produce Ivany® Block in a variety of bed depths and architectural units. Contact us to help you find a manufacturer.
We also offer the expertise of our technical consultant for your project (on a fee basis).
Frequently asked questions
An engineered, steel reinforced concrete masonry system that is an alternative to cast-in-place reinforced concrete walls made with conventional formwork.
Only Ivany® Block gives your project high structural performance with costs well below those of reinforced concrete.
As the wall is erected, horizontal steel bars are placed into the pre-slotted crosswebs of the block. After the wall is built, vertical bars are placed into position. Because of the block’s special features, all steel is held in the exact position needed to meet engineering design and code requirements. The large, vertically aligned cores ensure an easy and complete fill with concrete.
Ivany®Block is ideal for any project being designed with poured concrete walls for foundations, basements and shear walls in high rises. It’s been used for 50+ years in schools, hotels, warehouses, offices, hospitals, correctional facilities, apartments, stores and more.