Reinforced brick assembly

A reinforced brick assembly comprising:

• a plurality of brick units;
• said brick units being stacked in a horizontal and a vertical dimension to form a brick panel;
• mortar between adjacent ones of said brick units in said brick panel;
• a plurality of holes in said brick units;
• at least one of said plurality of holes in at least some of said brick units being aligned with a hole in a vertically adjacent brick unit;
• the aligned holes being aligned through at least said vertical dimension of said brick panel;
• a vertical steel bar passing in the vertical dimension completely through all of said aligned holes;
• mortar in said aligned holes surrounding said vertical steel bar;
• a first support plate at a bottom of said brick panel;
• a second support plate at a top of said brick panel;
• a first end of said vertical steel bar passing through said first support plate and a second end of said vertical steel bar passing through said second support plate;
• means on said first and second ends outside said first and second support plates for prestressing said vertical steel bar in said mortar;
• at least one horizontal steel bar in said mortar between at least one vertically adjacent pair of horizontal rows of said brick units;
• a support means in said mortar between first and second vertically adjacent brick units;
• an upper half leg on said support means passing vertically upward into a hole in said first brick unit;
• a lower half leg on said support means passing vertically downward into a hole in said second;
• and
• mortar in said holes surrounding said upper and lower half legs.