The £30bn project divided up responsibility for upgrading and maintaining the tube for the next three decades among two companies: Metronet and Tube Lines.
WSDOT is improving the whole corridor in a project divided into four miniature projects, all of which are expected to be complete by 2011.
Do all PhD projects divide neatly like this?
If you have a larger group and more complex building projects, divide guests into teams and set the timer for some challenging cooperative fun.
In West Bengal, land acquisition for industrial projects divided the electorate.
Since open-ended tasks with distant deadlines are much easier to postpone than focussed, short-term projects, dividing projects into smaller, more defined sections helps.
In its marriage of artistic ambition and economic practicality, this immense project was a bit like the Depression-era W.P.A. (Athens enjoyed full employment for nearly half a century after the work began; Plutarch, in his life of Pericles, wrote that the projects "divided and distributed surplus money to pretty well every age-group and type of person").
But in the last two years, the city's architectural heritage has come under siege, with the construction of two new projects dividing public opinion and threatening Seville's Unesco World Heritage status.
Those involve 769 distinct partners, for a total cost of the projects of 2,500 M euro (around 78% of the total cost of PON R&C projects), divided into Universities (33), Public Research Institutes (21), non-Public Research Institutes (44), Micro Enterprises (203), Small Enterprises (232), Medium Enterprises (58), Large Enterprises (163).
