One of the hot topics in the industry right now is predictive analytics. Clients are asking: “Is this a trend? Is this a paradigm? Should I be concerned about this or doing something?” The answer is: The practice of Predictive Analytics is here to stay and is important for the engineering and construction industry. Predictive analytics is the next generation of analytics. Data makes up the building blocks for analytics. But instead of using data analytics to make sense of the past — to understand what we’ve done and what trends we can pick out from our past behavior —