Sr Dainna Baharuddin graduated with a BSc Quantity Surveying from Newcastle Upon Tyne Polythechnic, UK in 1989. She did her practical training in Yeoman & Edwards, Tunbridge Wells, UK and started her career with Gardiner & Theobald, London, UK.
She returned to Malaysia in 1991 to work with Basar & Harun Sdn as a quantity surveyor.
She qualified as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors UK (RICS) in 1992. She was accepted as a member of the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) and as a Registered Quantity Surveyor with the Lembaga Juruukur Bahan Malaysia (LJBM) in 1994
She left Basar & Harun Sdn in 2000 to pursue her career locally and in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. She also has project experience in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has handled over 30 projects as a quantity surveyor specialising in high and low rise residential, commercial, high rise office, hotel, education, hospitals and infrastructure. Sr Dainna returned to Basar & Harun Sdn as Director in 2010.
Sr Dainna had been actively involved in various committees in RISM and BQSM since 1995. She had held posts of Divisional Treasurer, Secretary and RISM Honorary Treasurer General before becoming the Chairman of the RISM QS Division Session 2013/2014 and 2014/2015. Currently she is a Council Member of RISM and Board Member of BQSM.
She was the organising Chairman of successful events such as the RISM International BIM Seminar and Vendor Forum 2015, Quantity Surveying International Convention 2015, and, RISM Young Achievers Award 2004 and 2016
She is part of the International Construction Measurement Standard (ICMS) Standard Setting Committee . Sr Dainna headed the Malaysian Delegation to Pacific Asia Quantity Surveying (PAQS) Board Meeting and Conference in Hong Kong, 2014 and in Yokohama , Japan, 2015
