Kenya Institute of Highways and Building Technology (KIHBT), is a division in the State Department for Roads. The mandate of KIHBT is to provide training to ministerial staff for performance improvement, provide training to the wider infrastructure sector and capacity building for infrastructure development.

KIHBT was established as Road Authority Training School in 1948. The purpose was to carry out training for African supervisors, plant operators and mechanics.

By the time of independence (1963), the scope of the Institute had widened to serve the senior staff of the whole Ministry of Works and Local Authorities. The institute became part of a greatly enhanced training programme under the auspices of the Ministry of Works, Staff Training Division (STD), which was concerned with the Africanization of the services.