A warm, golden-yellow balau with excellent outdoor performance. Hard, heavy and dimensionally stable, bengkirai is our choice for exposed structures and terraces that need to handle sun and rain season after season.
Excellent exterior performance makes it a reliable choice for pergolas, terraces and exposed framing in tropical and coastal climates.
A dense, stable timber that resists warping and holds its shape under temperature and humidity swings.
Distinctive honey-yellow color when fresh, weathering gracefully to silver-grey outdoors if left untreated.
Bengkirai appears throughout the outdoor living spaces of our prefab homes — terraces, shaded walkways and pergola structures that stay outdoors year-round.
Bengkirai's hardness, weight and outdoor stability make it well suited to exposed structures, pergolas, terraces and other applications that face sustained sun and rain.
Fresh bengkirai has a warm golden-yellow tone that weathers to a silvery grey outdoors if left untreated, similar to teak, or can be maintained with periodic oiling.
Bengkirai performs well in exposed, above-ground exterior applications. For direct ground contact or structural foundations, we typically specify Ulin Ironwood instead, given its superior decay resistance.