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Hovis-
Fully south facing which doesn't help.
I guess the point is that the efficiency of your insulation will work against you with a building like this because of the high % of surface area taken up by glazing.
If you have no way of cooling the building then you have to block the glazing to reduce the heat, which negates the point of having the glazing in the first place...
Soul
Mine was not on a concrete base but on piles.
According to the company that built it, the insulation values were:
Glazing on Windows and Doors – U-Value 1.2
Walls – U-Value 0.41
Ceiling – U-Value 0.22
Floor – U-Value 0.35
I think the issue you'll have is that it'll really heat up once you get the glazing in and, once that heat's in there, whatever insulation you have will keep it hot.
We had windows all the way across the front of ours and had to put blinds in otherwise it was pretty much unusable from May-September. That then just made the windows sort of pointless as you had the blinds closed.
I wish we'd had AC put in...