Register with EBK as a consulting engineer or accredited checker
Engineers Board of Kenya · sources read 2 Oct 2026
If you have been a registered professional engineer for at least 5 straight years, apply on the EBK eCitizen portal using Form EBK 2, pass the professional interview and pay the KSh 20,000 application fee. Accredited checkers must already be consulting engineers with 15 years' experience and apply on Form EBK 6 (KSh 25,000).
- Fee
- KSh 20,000Consulting engineer application feeKSh 25,000Accredited checker application fee
- Where
- Online on the EBK eCitizen portal (ebk.ecitizen.go.ke); EBK offices at Fortis Suites, 9th Floor, Hospital Road, Nairobi
What you need
- Consulting engineer: application Form EBK 2
- Certified copies of your certificates and documents proving you qualify
- Accredited checker: application Form EBK 6
- Accredited checker: an updated detailed CV
Steps
- Log in to eCitizen at ebk.ecitizen.go.ke and choose 'Consulting engineer new application' or 'Accredited checkers new application'.
- Fill in the application (Form EBK 2 for consulting engineers, Form EBK 6 for accredited checkers), attach certified copies of your certificates and pay.
- Consulting engineer applicants then sit and pass a professional interview with the Board.
Watch out
- You may not work as an accredited checker until EBK registers you.
- Accredited checker registration lasts one year. To renew, you submit a written report of the checking work you did that year.
- Once registered you pay the annual licence fee every 1 January (KSh 20,000 consulting engineer, KSh 25,000 accredited checker).
Who can apply
- Consulting engineer: a registered professional engineer with at least 5 consecutive years of practice right before applying.
- Accredited checker: a consulting engineer in the relevant discipline with at least 15 years' proven design and construction management experience.
Official sources (3)
- The Engineers Rules, 2019 (L.N. 18 of 2019) new.kenyalaw.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Engineers Act, 2011 (No. 43 of 2011) new.kenyalaw.org · read 2 Oct 2026
- Engineers Board of Kenya - eCitizen ebk.ecitizen.go.ke · read 2 Oct 2026