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About JengaTrack

When something goes wrong on a building, the record should still be there

Too often, after a failure on site, nobody can say who was responsible at the time, which drawing applied, what was delivered or who was warned. JengaTrack exists so that record is kept as the work happens, fairly, for everyone on the project.

What we're building

JengaTrack is an independent platform for Kenya's construction industry. It helps architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and project managers protect their professional record, helps owners see what's happening on their projects, and makes gaps in accountability visible before they become failures.

It also handles the everyday paperwork that makes up most of a practice's week: bills of quantities, quotations, invoices and receipts. The two belong together, because a project's money and its record tell the same story.

Principles

What we won't compromise on

Independent

JengaTrack is privately run and answers to no contractor, developer or supplier. A supplier's shop never affects a project record, and a project record never affects a shop.

Truthful records

We keep what a firm said apart from what was checked, what was disputed and what an authority decided. We never claim to have verified a registration, a certificate or a test result.

Fair to everyone on site

Every firm has a right of reply. A concern is never public, a fundi isn't presumed unlawful, and nobody can erase another firm's warning or answer.

Honest about itself

This site describes what works today. Anything still being built is labelled as planned, and we don't publish ratings, testimonials or figures we can't stand behind.

Regulators and professional bodies

A record that supports the people who regulate

JengaTrack doesn't replace statutory approvals, inspections or enforcement, and never will. Those stay with the bodies the law gives them to. What it can offer is evidence: a fair, fingerprinted record of who was appointed, what was delivered and tested, which drawings applied and what was raised.

We'd welcome the chance to work with regulators and professional bodies on how that record could help them, for example a controlled way for an authorised officer to review the evidence on a project referred to them.

Planned None of this exists yet, and no regulator or professional body endorses or works with JengaTrack today. Any arrangement would follow a proper agreement and legal review.

Bodies we'd like to talk to

  • The Engineers Board of Kenya
  • The National Construction Authority
  • The Board of Registration of Architects and Quantity Surveyors
  • The Kenya Bureau of Standards
  • County building-control and planning teams
  • Professional institutes and their members

Listing a body here means only that we'd like to talk to it, not that it knows of or supports JengaTrack.

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Photo: Lebu Ayiga, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

See the record for yourself

The demo has a sample project with a revised drawing, a failed concrete test under a non-conformance, a checklist, a concern and the alerts they raised. Nothing to sign up for.

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