1. Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, American Univ. of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, Sharjah 26666, UAE. ORCID: .
2. Former Undergraduate Student, Dept. of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, American Univ. of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, Sharjah 26666, UAE; formerly, Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., ZN808, Block Z, Hong Kong, China (corresponding author). ORCID: .