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ENGR 101: Final Report
Section 75, Group 13
Group members
Tran Le, tl549@drexel.edu
Yifang Wang, yw543@drexel.edu
Veronica Morrissette, vam62@drexel.edu
Saipranay Talla, st825@drexel.edu
Abstract
My group and I decided to perform this particular study because the idea of a Haunted House
appealed to all of us and seemed very interesting. Our clients are all the entrepreneurs that are
interested in investing in our Haunted House. The objectives of the study were to design a well
rounded haunted house and build it from scratch. The assumptions were that there is no limit for
the budget and there was no restriction when it came to time. The study recommends that the
constructor, employers, and the employees handle the entire project by themselves. They are in
charge of building the haunted house and making it a public attraction.
Introduction
To better understand this study, the group developed sketches, gantt chart, bill of materials, and a
budget. The sketches show the layout of the haunted house. The layout shows that the house has
two floors and also shows where the scary events will take place. The gantt chart shows a
schedule that will be followed when building the haunted house. Ultimately, the entire project
was divided into numerous tasks and each task received a particular span of time that it will be
completed within. The bill of materials is a list of all the materials required to build the haunted
house and the budget shows the cost of building the haunted house including labor and
equipment. The main goal of this project is to build a successful haunted house, but also to make
it the best one the world has yet to witness. Our designs for our haunted house will help us
achieve this goal because we managed to take the scariest events from a variety of haunted
houses and mix them up all together into one big haunted house. Our haunted house will be the
scariest of them all. Also, we wanted to make our haunted house unique compared to other ones
so we added the theme of laser tag to enhance the enjoyment the haunted house can produce. The
overall purpose of the project was to design and build a haunted house from scratch. Our major
assumption is that this project will be a huge success because a lot of time and money is being
invested into this project and no expenses are being spared.
Sketches
Big Picture: Floor 1

1st Floor Attractions
1. Beyond the Touch
When the visitors walk into this part of the haunted house, there will be 3 people in alternating
position grabbing the visitors’ arms and legs as they walk pass.
2. Don’t Scream Too Loud
There will be people dressed up in scary masks that will pop out to scare the visitors as they pass.
3. I see Clowns…and more..
In this hallway, there will be two clowns with fake chainsaws chasing the visitors around.
4. Hallway of Doom
There will be different scary soundtracks (screams, moans, running, thumping, etc) as people
walk pass.
5. Watch Your Steps
Visitors will find themselves in a pool of fake blood once they reach this part of the house.
6. Well Hello There
This room is full of zombies trying to grab you and the object is to shoot down all the zombies
and get out the room before your opponents get to you.
Big Picture: Floor 2

2nd Floor Attractions
7. Say Cheese
Photo booth with a twist. Visitors get into a room where there is a photo booth. As they click
snap, there will be scary sounds going off that will shock the visitors.
8. Please Come In
Trap Door: this takes the visitors back to the first floor where they have to go through the maze
again to try to get to the second floor
9. Mirror Mirror On The Wall
This is a room with mirrors surrounding it with blood on the mirror. In the corner will be a little
girl dressed up in white attire with blood over her. She will chase anyone who steps into the
room try to push them through the door that leads to the trap door.
10. Oh it’s you AGAIN
This area will be filed with zombies trying to bite the visitors. Zombies will be wearing targets
where users can shoot them before the zombies can get to them. After they get past the zombies,
they will see a door that will let them out. Once they get to the door and try to open it, there will
be two buckets of fake blood above that will pour over them.
11. Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite

Hall way will be filled with bugs to distract visitors from moving forward as some are terrified
by the bugs.
Alternative Energy
Gantt chart
start date end date description duration
11/10/15 12/10/15 design haunted house 30
12/10/15 12/24/15 meet with contractor 14
12/17/15 12/31/15 create list of materials 14
12/24/15 1/24/16 order materials 30
12/31/15 8/31/16 construction 240
1/24/16 2/24/16 budget 30
5/21/16 9/21/16 decoration 120
8/31/16 9/30/16 test haunted houses 30
9/21/16 10/21/16 record times for each events 30

In order to finish our project efficiently, we created a gantt chart that describes our plan to build
a haunted house. We started our project on November 10th, 2015 and we plan to finish it before
October 30th, 2016, which is the date for celebrating halloween holiday of next year. Since we
plan to finish building this haunted house within a year or so, a gantt chart and schedule for each
task were created and following this plan will help us work efficiently and save money.
Before starting construction, a design of our haunted house is needed. So the first task is to
design the haunted house and we plan to finish it in a month. Then we will bring our design of
the haunted house to meet with the contractors. We plan to finalize the contract in two weeks.
since we plan to finish the construction in 8 months, in order to start construction once the
contract is finalized, we need to have some materials prepared first such as woods for foundation
of the haunted house. So while we are negotiating with the contractors, we start to create a list of
materials and plan to finish it in two weeks. And while we are creating the list of materials, we
start to order some materials online or we can get them in some nearby stores so that the
construction can be started even though not all the materials are arrived. So the constructors are
building the haunted house while waiting for other materials arrived.
We plan to get all the material prepared in a month. And once all the material are arrived, we can
start working on the budget by using the time of construction. And we plan to finish the budget
in a month. After the constructors finish building the first floor of our haunted house, we can
start decorating the first floor of the haunted house and finish five events first. And once all the
constructions are finished, we can decorating the second floor of the haunted. We plan to finish
decorating the haunted house in four months. Similarly, while we finish decorating the first floor
of the haunted house, we can start testing the haunted house and we plan to spend a month to test
the safety of the house and make sure each event works as expected. While we are testing the
haunted house, we can record times for each event at the same time. And we will finish
recording in a month. If everything works smoothly as we planned, we can open our haunted
house almost two weeks earlier before the halloween holiday starts. if some of the tasks need
more time to be finished, we still can expect that our haunted house will be open before the
halloween starts.
Bill of Materials/Budget
Labor Cost: Qty Salary per hour Hours Total

Beyondthe Touch: 6 $9.00 40 $2,160.00
I see Clowns... andmore... 2 $9.00 40 $720.00
Why Hello There 7 $9.00 40 $2,520.00
Mirror Mirror OnThe Wall 1 $9.00 40 $360.00
Oh It's youAGAIN 9 $9.00 40 $3,240.00
Please Come In 1 $9.00 40 $360.00
Extra
Staff 10 $9.00 40 $3,600.00
Sub
Total: $12,960.00
This is a summary our bill of materials for the Haunted House scare events staff. In order to
acquire a realistic theatrical effect we require to have every item listed on the bill of materials.
Equipment
No. Materials Qty Description Unit Cost Net Cost Shipping Total
Lead
Time Status Supplier Link
1
Laser Tag
Gear 16
LaserTronLT-12
PRO $3,862.50 $61,800.00 Free $61,800.00 None LaserTron Link
2 FogMachine 5
1000WFogMachine
with Controller $59.99 $299.95 Free $299.95 None Party City Link
The fog machine will set the mood within the haunted house making the area seem more eerie
and spooky. The Laser Tag gear gives the effect of the visitors shooting the zombies when they
enter the “Well Hello There” and “Oh it’s you AGAIN” rooms.
Hallwayof Doom
Lead
1
Surround
Sound 1
Bose
Soundtouch 520
Home Theater
System $1,499.95 $1,499.95 Free 1,499.95 None Bose Link
The surround sound system will project realistic scary sounds of people in despair, running,
thumping, ect. as the people walk throughout “The Hallway of Doom”
Don't Scream Too Loud

Lead
1 Mask 1
MTVScream
Mask For Adults $6.99 $6.99 $4.99 $11.98 None
Buy
Costumes Link
2 Mask 1 Devil Skull Mask $19.97 $19.97 $4.99 $24.96 None
Buy
Costumes Link
3 Mask 1
Digital Cyborg
Latex Mask $29.97 $29.97 $4.99 $34.96 None
Buy
Costumes Link
4 Mask 5
Black Morph
Mask $9.99 $49.95 $4.99 $54.94 None
Buy
Costumes Link
5 Mask 5 Skull Mask $4.99 $24.95 $4.99 $29.94 None
Buy
Costumes Link
6 Mask 1
Oni Demon Blue
Mask $24.97 $24.97 $4.99 $29.96 None
Buy
Costumes Link
Each is mask is used for the “Don’t Scream Too Loud” area. It is used to scare the customers
with familiar scarry characters such as Scream and the Oni Demon and to make the characters
come alive.
Say Cheese
Lead
1 Photobooth 2
8' 4" high x 5'
wide x 39" deep
photobooth $299.99 $599.98 $136.48 $736.46 5 days Andersons Link
The photobooth is used in the “Say Cheese” event in the Haunted House. It’s actually a prank to
make the game and house more interesting. When the customer press the okay button the to take
a pic, instead of taking a pic there will be scary noises and faces.
Beyond the Touch
Lead
1 Clothes 6 Black Body Suit $34.99 $209.94 Free $209.94 None Morph Suits Link
The Black Morph body suits allows the workers to blend in with the dark and creates the effect
of the visitors getting grabbed out of nowhere.
Don’t Letthe Bedbugs Bite
No. Materials Qty Description
Unit
Cost Net Cost Shipping Total
Lead
1 Rubber Bugs 5
Safari Ltd®
TOOBS®Insects $9.99 $49.95 $6.95 $56.90 Michaels Link

The fake rubber bugs are used to trick into thinking they are real bugs and to keep them from
moving forward throughout the hall as there are some who has a fear of bugs.
Well HelloThere
Lead
1
Zombie
Costume 7
Man Zombie
Costume $52.46 $367.22 $11.99 $379.21
Costume
Craze Link
2 Makeup 7
Zombie Makeup
Kit $9.99 $69.93 $6.99 $76.92 Spencer's Link
Oh it's you AGAIN
Lead
1
Zombie
Costumes 10
Men's Complete
3D Zombie
Costume $39.99 $399.90 Free $423.90 None Amazon Link
The Zombie costumes and makeup kit gives the theatrical effect of the workers being real
zombies to scare the customers.
PleaseCome In
Lead
1 Trap Door 5
A trap door on
the floorthat will
trap people $73.25 $366.25 Free $366.25
Williams
Brothers Link
2 CottonRope 2
Rope usedto
open trapdoor $28.95 $57.90 Free $57.90 Amazon Link
3 Bounce House 1
Bounce house for
people falling
from trapdoor $1,000 $1,000 Free $1,000 Alibaba Link
The Trap Door on the floor will be used to trap people within the maze and the rope is used to
open the trapdoor. The bouncey house is needed since the visitors will be falling down, this will
keep them from getting injured.
Watch Your Steps
Unit
Lead
1 Fake Blood 30
30 gallons of
fake bloodto
scare people $39.66 $1,199.70 Free $1,199.70 Amazon Link

The Fake Blood will be used to create the 2ft pool of blood that people has to walk through. It is
also used to scare people and gross them out.
Mirror Mirror On The
Wall
Lead
1
Litle Girl
Costume 1
Princess Ivory
Floor-length
Flower Girl Dress $49.99 $49.99 $14.99 $64.98
Light in the
Box Link
2 Fake Blood 1
30 Gallons of
Theatrical Blood $39.66 $39.66 Free $39.66 Amazon Link
3 Mirror 20
6"x 9" Plastic
Mirror $4.49 $89.80 $5.95 $95.75 Joann Link
The Dress is used for the Creepy little girl’s costume. The Blood will be used to put on the girl’s
dress and all over the mirrors to make the room creepier and scarier. The mirrors will be placed
all over the rooms to confuse the visitors to finding the exit.
I See Clowns…and
More...
Unit
Lead
1
Clown
Costume 2
Clown
Costume +
Accessories +
Make-up $94.96 $189.92 $4.99 $194.91 HalloweenCostumes Link
2 Chainsaw 2
27" Plastic
Chainsaw $20.89 $41.78 Free $41.78 Jet Link
The Clown Costume set makes the workers look like real creepy clowns. The fake chainsaws
makes the Clown workers more creepier and scarier.
Project Budget
Expenses
Construction Description Quantity Cost Total
Land purchase of empty lot 4000-4500sqft $70,000.00 $70,000.00
General Contractor everythingconcerningbuildingphase 1 $650,000.00 $650,000.00
Sub-total Construction $720,000.00
Salaries Description Quantity Cost per Hour Total
Upper Staff staff responsible formanagement ofhouse 4 $30.00 $120.00

Staff staff responsible forsacredevents 36 $9.00 $324.00
Sub-Total Salaries $444.00
Sub-Total Salaries (40hrs
week) 40 $17,760.00
Supplies Description Quantity Cost Total
Materials materials such as costumes andfakeblood 200 $900.00 $180,000.00
Other any other materials neededto operate 150 $10.00 $1,500.00
Sub-Total Supplies $181,500.00
Utilities Description Quantity Cost Total
Electricity special effect andlights 260 days $216 per week $56,160.00
Water water necessities 260 days $100 per month $855.00
Internet & Phone wifi for lazer tag 260 days $78.95per month $947.40
Sub-Total Utilities $57,962.40
Total Expense $977,222.40
This is a summary of our Budget for the Haunted House Project. In order to get the House built
we need to buy land and a General Contractor for a contracting company that will be willing to
build and construct our haunted house maze. We also put in the salaries of the workers. The
upper staff will receive more money than the regular staff because they are in charge of
managing the workers and things that goes on in the haunted house. For the regular staff’s salary
we researched Philadelphia’s minimum wage and went a bit above the wage. The Materials for
the haunted house maze is needed to make the maze haunted and scary. Other materials needed
to run the haunted house maze was also included in the budget. Because the haunted house maze
will be using electricity and water, we researched the cost for water and electricity in
Philadelphia to get the total cost of the amount of water and electricity that will be used with the
260 days the maze will be operating. We also included the cost for internet and phone services
because the laser tag equipment requires internet to function correctly.
Discussion
A lot of thought was put into designing and building this haunted house. We first developed
models of the haunted house by coming up with as many as ideas as possible for scary events
and then we picked the best ones out of all of them. We also researched the scariest haunted
houses and by doing took some ideas and added twists to them to make them as unique as
possible. The most unique thing about our haunted house is that it involves laser tag so people
will be playing a game and being scared at the same time! We decided to build our own haunted
house instead of renting a house because we felt like we could do more with our own house. We
chose the best contractor for the job and guided him through all of the architectural decisions.

We did not have any special machines perform any of the scary events. All of the scary events
were performed by the employees.
Everything went pretty well in the end. The employees did well with their respective jobs.
Almost everyone that entered the haunted house had fun. We were afraid the house might have
been a little small to have a maze and a laser tag theme, but it worked out just fine in the end.
Safety was the number one consideration when it came to people’s needs and preferences for this
project. Since our haunted house involves a trap door and a maze, we wanted to make sure the
haunted house is as safe as possible because safety hazards would destroy our business. These
safety concerns were taken care off with great lighting and electricity management to make sure
the employees can spot all of the people inside at any given time.
If we were to repeat this project, there are some things that we would do differently. We would
buy a bigger house because if we had a bigger house we would have been able to express our
scary events better. Also, we think the maze was a little hard for some people because there were
a lot of dead ends and the goal was hard to reach, so in the future we would make the maze less
complicated and at the same time more enjoyable for everyone.
References
"America's Top 15 Scariest Haunted Houses - Best Haunted Houses 2015." America's Top 15
Scariest Haunted Houses - Best Haunted Houses 2015. Web. 1 Dec. 2015.
"Haunted Houses: Electricity Cost and Consumption." Electric Choice. 19 Oct. 2015. Web. 1
Dec. 2015.
"The Architecture Of Fear: How To Design A Truly Terrifying Haunted House." Co.Design. 29
Oct. 2014. Web. 1 Dec. 2015.

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